The workshop aims to facilitate a discussion of the role of non-liberal states, including totalitarian, autocratic, personalized and hybrid regimes, in re-shaping international organisations. Specifically, our goal is to study the governance challenges arising from a transformation in the roles, positions and practices adopted by non-liberal states in International Organizations (IOs). The rise of China, Russia’s increasingly autocratic turn, and the growing number of hybrid regimes have produced a new reality in which non-liberal states have become increasingly assertive in IOs. Is this new assertiveness likely to affect IOs’ functioning and governance? If so, how?
The workshop aims to explore the question of whether and how non-liberal states are likely to change IOs. We aim to explore three starting assumptions with workshop participants. First, that a non-liberal state may promote different norms, policy agendas, practices, discourses and alliances than the established ones. Second, that the rise in the number and importance of non-liberal states will lead to them more openly contesting liberal international norms that are embedded in IOs, such as human rights and liberal trade. Both processes may result in changes in existing IOs and the regimes that they sustain. They may be undermined, re-purposed or even replaced by organizations and networks created by non-liberal states. The workshop will explore various aspects of a research agenda that aims to investigate whether the assertiveness of non-liberal states in IOs affects a number of important aspects such as the sense of purpose, norms, policy agendas, informal alliances, decision-making processes, practices and discourses that prevail within these organizations. And third, that different types of non-liberal regimes may related differently to international norms and organizations. The changing dynamics resulting from the rise of non-liberal states constitute a rich research agenda with significant implications for various themes in comparative politics, international relations and international public administration (the study of international secretariats).
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1: How (much) are the increasing number and assertiveness of non-liberal states transforming IO's?
2: Are different types of non-liberal regimes (totalitarian, autocratic, personalized, hybrid) affecting IO's?
3: What empirical evidence is there of a specific non-liberal state’s behaviour in IOs?
4: Are non-liberal states employing similar strategies and forming networks and coalitions?
5: Are there aspects of the multilateral international order that are particularly targeted by non-liberal states?
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