About

I am Professor at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen (Germany) where I hold the Chair for International Relations. ​ Previously, I was lecturer at the Faculty for Economic and Social Sciences at Potsdam University (Germany) and post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project "Decline and Death of International Organizations" at Maastricht University (Netherlands). ​ I hold a PhD in International Relations from Free University Berlin (Germany) where I was a research fellow at the KFG Research Group "The Transformative Power of Europe", and have been a Fox International Fellow at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University (USA) and a visiting researcher at Stockholm University (Sweden). In my research, I focus on the role of regime type in global governance and challenges and transformations to multilateral organizations. I am particularly interested in the effects of regional and international inter-governmental organizations on the domestic survival politics of authoritarian regimes, on consequences of regime type for the design of global governance institutions, as well as survival and death of international organizations. I work predominantly with quantitative and mix-methods research designs and also specialise in the politics of the Middle East. My work has been published in the Review of International Organizations, the European Journal of International Relations or Democratization. For more information, please consult my personal website: www.mariadebre.com Selected Publications: Clubs of Autocrats: Regional Organizations and Authoritarian Survival, The Review of International Organizations, online first, 2021. Covid-19 policy responses by international organizations: Crisis of liberal international order or window of opportunity. Global Policy, online first, 2021 (with Hylke Dijkstra). Institutional design for a post-liberal order: Why some International Organizations live longer than others. European Journal of International Relations, 2021: 27(1):311-339 (with Hylke Dijkstra). The dark side of regionalism: how regional organizations help authoritarian regimes to boost survival. Democratization, 2021: 28(2), 394-413. Legitimation, regime survival, and shifting alliances in the Arab Spring: Explaining sanction politics during the Arab Spring. International Political Science Review, online first, 2020. Out of the Shadows: Authoritarian Regimes, Flawed Elections and International Legitimation, Contemporary Politics, 2017: 23(3), 328-247 (with Lee Morgenbesser).

Research Interests

Democratisation, Globalisation, Governance, Institutions, International Relations, Global, Quantitative, Mixed Methods, Member States

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