Publications

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Hooghe, Liesbet, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks. 2019. A Theory of International Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hooghe, Liesbet, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks. 2019. A Theory of International Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lenz, Tobias, and Henning Schmidtke. 2022. "Audiences, Agents, and Peers: Why International Organizations Diversify their Discursive Legitimation." International Affairs (forthcoming).

Lenz, Tobias. 2017. Review of Alexandru Grigorescu's 'Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? Normative Pressures and Decision-Making Rules.' Review of International Organizations 12(1): 151-155.

Krösche, Niklas, Schirmer, Swantje, and Tobias Lenz. 2021. Claimed Legitimacy: Appreciating the Diversity of Regional Organizations. GIGA Focus Global, No. 4 (July).

Hooghe, Liesbet, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks. 2019. "Contested World Order: The Delegitimation of International Governance." Review of International Organizations 14(4): 731-743. [online view available]

Duina, Francesco, and Tobias Lenz. 2017. “Democratic Legitimacy in Regional Economic Organizations: The European Union in Comparative Perspective.” Economy and Society 46(3-4): 398-431.

Lenz, Tobias. 2021. "Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism." International Studies Review 23(4): 1859-1883.

Marks, Gary, Tobias Lenz, Besir Ceka, and Brian Burgoon. 2014. “Discovering Cooperation: A Contractual Approach to Institutional Change in Regional International Organizations.” Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) Working Paper Series, No. 2014/65, Florence: European University Institute.

Lenz, Tobias, Bes Ceka, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Alexandr Burilkov. 2022. "Discovering Cooperation: Endogenous Change in International Organizations." Review of International Organizations (forthcoming).

Duina, Francesco, and Tobias Lenz. 2016. "Do Regional Economic Organisations Suffer from a Democratic Legitimacy Deficit? Evidence from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas." ISA e-Symposium for Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 1. 

Jetschke, Anja, and Tobias Lenz. 2013. “Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda for the Study of Regional Organizations.” Journal of European Public Policy 20(4): 626-637.    

Stephen Hall, Tobias Lenz, and Anastassia Obydenkova. 2022. “Environmental Commitments and Rhetoric over the Pandemic Crisis: Social Media and Legitimation of the AIIB, the EAEU, and the EU.” Post-Communist Economies 34(5): 577-602.

Lenz, Tobias. 2019. “EU Entrepreneurship, Norm Diffusion and the Creation of Regional Parliamentary Assemblies.” In Kolja Raube, Meltem Müftüler Bac, and Jan Wouters (eds.) Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations: An Essential Companion. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 70-87.

Lenz, Tobias. 2013. “EU Normative Power and Regionalism: Ideational Diffusion and Its Limits.” Cooperation and Conflict 48(2): 211-228. [open access via ssoar]

Lenz, Tobias, and Kalypso Nicolaidis. 2019. "EU-topia? A Critique of the European Union as a Model." Culture, Practice and Europeanization 4(2): 78-101. [open access] 

Lenz, Tobias. 2013. “External Influences on Regionalism: Studying EU Diffusion and Its Limits.” e-International Relations, 17 July 2013.    

Lenz, Tobias. 2018. "Frame Diffusion and Institutional Choice in Regional Economic Cooperation." International Theory 10(1): 31-70. [open access]

Iroulo, Lynda C. and Tobias Lenz. 2022. "Global Theories of Regionalism." In Jürgen Rüland and Astrid Carrapatoso (eds.) Handbook of Regionalism and Global Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (forthcoming). 

Lenz, Tobias, and Alexandr Burilkov. 2017. "Institutional Pioneers in World Politics: Regional Institution Building and the Influence of the European Union." European Journal of International Relations 23(3): 654-680. [open access]

Lenz, Tobias. 2021. Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [open access]

Lenz, Tobias. 2021. Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [open access]

Lenz, Tobias, and Lora Viola. 2017. "Legitimacy and Institutional Change in International Organizations: A Cognitive Approach." Review of International Studies 43(5): 939-961. [open access]
     ** RIS's most cited article in the last three years **

Lenz, Tobias, Alexandr Burilkov, and Lora Viola. 2019. "Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change: The Case of Regional Parliamentarization." International Studies Quarterly 63(4): 1094-1107. [open access]

Lenz, Tobias, Alexandr Burilkov, and Lora Viola. 2019. "Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change: The Case of Regional Parliamentarization." International Studies Quarterly 63(4): 1094-1107. [open access]

Haftel, Yoram, and Tobias Lenz. 2022. "Measuring Institutional Overlap in Global Governance." Review of International Organizations 17(2): 323-347. [open access]

Haftel, Yoram, and Tobias Lenz. 2022. "Measuring Institutional Overlap in Global Governance." Review of International Organizations 17(2): 323-347. [open access]

Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, Tobias Lenz, Jeanine Bezuijen, Besir Ceka, and Svet Derderyan. 2017. Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lenz, Tobias, Jeanine Bezuijen, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks. 2015. “Patterns of International Organization: Task Specific vs. General Purpose.” Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49: 131-156.    

Lenz, Tobias, and Gary Marks. 2016. “Regional Institutional Design: Delegation and Pooling.” In Tanja Börzel, and Thomas Risse (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 513-537.    

Duina, Francesco, and Tobias Lenz. 2016. “Regionalism and Diffusion Revisited: From Final Design Towards Stages of Decision-Making.” Review of International Studies 42(4): 773-797.

Lenz, Tobias. 2012. “Spurred Emulation: The EU and Regional Integration in Mercosur and SADC.” West European Politics 35(1): 155-174.       

Lenz, Tobias. 2018. The European Union: A Model Under Pressure. GIGA Focus Global, No. 6 (December).

Lenz, Tobias. 2009. From Geo-Politics to Geo-Economics: The European Union’s Promotion of Regional Integration in Latin America, 1980 – today. Saarbrücken: VDM.

Hebel, Kai, and Tobias Lenz. 2016. “The Identity/Policy Nexus in European Foreign Policy.” Journal of European Public Policy 23(4): 473-491.    

Castro, Rafael, and Tobias Lenz. 2019. The Lima Summit: A Trial by Fire for the Pacific Alliance. GIGA Focus Latin America, No. 4 (July).

Schimmelfennig, Frank, Thomas Winzen, Tobias Lenz, Jofre Rocabert, Loriana Crasnic, Cristina Gherasimov, Jana Lipps, and Densua Mumford. 2020. The Rise of International Parliaments: Strategic Legitimation in International Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Schimmelfennig, Frank, Thomas Winzen, Tobias Lenz, Jofre Rocabert, Loriana Crasnic, Cristina Gherasimov, Jana Lipps, and Densua Mumford. 2020. The Rise of International Parliaments: Strategic Legitimation in International Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lenz, Tobias. 2017. The Rising Authority of International Organisations. GIGA Focus Global, No. 4 (September).

Jetschke, Anja, and Tobias Lenz. 2011. “Vergleichende Regionalismusforschung und Diffusion: Eine neue Forschungsagenda.” [Comparative Regionalism and Diffusion: A New Research Agenda] Politische Vierteljahresschrift 52(3): 448-474.    

Lenz, Tobias, and Kai Striebinger. 2017. “Vergleichende Regionalismusforschung.” [Comparative Regionalism] In Simon Koschut (ed.) Regionen und Regionalismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen [Regions and Regionalism in International Relations], Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag, pp. 39-56.

Bielawski, Martina, Jasna Jurišić, Tobias Lenz, Tim Maxian Rusche, and Collin Nippert. 2006. “Via – Communis Europa: Europe’s Architecture in 2020.” WeltTrends 50: 82-90.