Publications

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

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, 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]

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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] 

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]

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

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, 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 **

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.

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.

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

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

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.    

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

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.    

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.    

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. 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, 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.

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.    

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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. 

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