Books

• After Exit: Alternative Leadership and Institutional Resilience after Hegemonic Withdrawal (unpublished manuscript).
• 2024: European Blame Games: Where does the Buck stop? Oxford University Press (with Berthold Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, and Lisa Kriegmair). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192870636.001.0001

Journal articles

• 2026: The Scapegoating Hypothesis Revisited: Unpacking Blame Attribution towards the International Monetary Fund. In: Global Studies Quarterly (with M. Rodwan Abouharb & Bernhard Reinsberg). Forthcoming.
• 2026: (De-)Coding “America First”: Trump’s Contestation of International Institutions and its Consequences. In: International Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaf231.
• 2025: Perfect Scapegoats? Blaming and Defending the International Monetary Fund. In: Review of International Organizations (with Tom Hunter and Sujeong Shim). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-025-09607-1.
• 2025: Destruction or Renewal? Trumpism and the Future of Global Governance. In: Global Public Policy and Governance (with Benjamin Faude). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43508-025-00130-y.
• 2025: Shifting the Blame or Defending the Implementation. How Do Explanations Shape the Legitimacy of Contested EU Policies? In: Governance (with Asya Zhelyazkova, Thijs Lindner, and Agnieszka Kanas). Forthcoming.
• 2025: Bound to Retreat? US Disengagement from the Liberal International Order beyond Trump. In: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 18:4 (with Leonard Schütte). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12399-025-01066-1
• 2025: Die Abkehr von Hegemonialmächten aus „ihren“ Ordnungen: Eine Erkundung des Rückzugs der USA aus internationalen Institutionen jenseits von Trump [The withdrawal of hegemonic powers from “their” orders: An exploration of US withdrawal from international institutions beyond Trump.] In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 32:1. https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2025-1-6
• 2025: Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations. In: International Studies Quarterly 69:1, 1-15 (with Benjamin Daßler and Martijn Huysmans). https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae146
• 2024: How Negative Institutional Power Moderates Contestation: Explaining Dissatisfied Powers’ Strategies towards International Institutions. In: Review of International Organizations (with Benjamin Daßler and Andreas Kruck). Online first. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-024-09574-z
• 2024: No Place to Hide: The Public Attribution of Responsibility for Policy Failures of International Organizations. In: Review of International Studies. Online first (with Bernhard Zangl, Juliane Glovania, and Louisa Klein-Bölting). Online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000330
• 2024: The Cooptation Dilemma: Explaining US Contestation of the Liberal Trade Order. In: Global Studies Quarterly 4:2, 1-12 (with Andreas Kruck and Bernhard Zangl). https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae024
• 2024: Governance abhors a Vacuum: The Afterlives of Major International Organisations. In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations 26:3, 759–778 (with Hylke Dijkstra and Maria Debre). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481231202642
• 2023: Blame Shifting and Blame Obfuscation: The Blame Avoidance Effects of Delegation in the EU. In: European Journal of Political Research 62:1, 221-238 (with Bernhard Zangl, Berthold Rittberger, and Lisa Kriegmair). https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12503
• 2022: Wann eskalieren westliche Mächte institutionelle Kontestation? Interne Kontrolle, externe Effekte und Modi der Kontestation internationaler Institutionen. [When do Western Powers Escalate Institutional Contestation? Internal Control, External Effects, and Modes of Contestation of International Institutions.] In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 29:1, 6-31 (with Benjamin Daßler and Andreas Kruck). https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2022-1-6
• 2022: Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU. In: West European Politics 45:5, 1153-1174 (with Lisa Kriegmair, Berthold Rittberger, and Bernhard Zangl). https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.1909938
• 2022: To Yield or Shield? Comparing International Public Administrations’ Responses to Member States’ Policy Contestation. In: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 24:3, 296-312 (with Vytautas Jankauskas). https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1822144
• 2022: Disentangling Institutional Contestation by Established Powers: Types of Contestation Frames and Varying Opportunities for the Re-Legitimation of International Institutions. In: Global Constitutionalism 11:2, 344-368. (with Andreas Kruck, Benjamin Daßler, and Raphaela Hobbach). https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045381722000053
• 2022: Indirect Governance at War: Delegation and Orchestration in Rebel Support. In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 66:1, 115-143 (with Marius Mehrl). https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027211027311
• 2020: Nicht nur wehrlose Sündenböcke! Schuldvermeidungsstrategien internationaler Organisationen [No Defenseless Scapegoats! Blame Avoidance Strategies of International Organizations]. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly 61:4, 725-746 (with Bernhard Zangl). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-020-00255-1
• 2020: Disarmed Principals: Institutional Resilience and the Non-Enforcement of Delegation. In: European Political Science Review 12:4, 409-425 (with Moritz Weiss). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773920000181
• 2020: Divided They Fail: The Politics of Wedge Issues and Brexit. In: Journal of European Public Policy 27:5, 723-741 (with Lisa Kriegmair, Berthold Rittberger, and Bernhard Zangl). https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1683058
• 2020: The EU Multi-level System and the Europeanization of Domestic Blame Games. In: Politics and Governance 8:1, 85-94 (with Lisa Kriegmair and Berthold Rittberger). http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i1.2522
• 2020: Multilevel Blame Games: Blame-shifting in the European Union. In: Governance 33:4, 953-969 (with Bernhard Zangl). https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12459
• 2019: Heroes Welcome! An Exceptional Story of “Good” Refugees in the German Tabloid Discourse. In: Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 14:3, 220–239 (with Daniel Beck and Alexander Spencer). https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2019.1649412

Book chapters

• 2026: Bringing States Back In: A Leadership Perspective on IO Life Cycles. In: Gray, Julia (ed.): The Life Cycle of International Cooperation. University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming.
• 2024: Varieties of European Blame Games: On Scapegoat, Renegade, and Diffusion Games. In: Flinders, Matthew/Dimova, Gergana/Hinterleitner, Markus/Rhodes, R. A. W./Weaver, Kent (ed.): The Politics and Governance of Blame. Oxford University Press (with Berthold Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, and Lisa Kriegmair). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-and-governance-of-blame-9780198896388
• 2023: Eine Krise liberaler Hegemonie: Die Trump-Administration und die Kontestation der Liberalen Internationalen Ordnung. In: Böller, Florian/Werner, Welf (eds.): Hegemonialer Wandel. Globale Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitsordnungen in der Ära Trump. Hamburg/Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 77-96 [translation] (with Andreas Kruck and Benjamin Daßler). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35003-0_4
• 2021: A Crisis from Within: The Trump Administration and the Contestation of the Liberal International Order. In: Böller, Florian/Werner, Welf (eds.): A Hegemonic Transition? Reconfigurations of Global Economic and Security Orders in the Age of Trump. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 69-86 (with Andreas Kruck and Benjamin Daßler). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74505-9_4
• 2021: Divided They Fail: The Politics of Wedge Issues and Brexit. In: Richardson, Jeremy/Rittberger, Berthold (ed.): The Brexit Policy Fiasco. London: Routledge, 75-93 [reprint] (with Lisa Kriegmair, Berthold Rittberger, and Bernhard Zangl). 978-0367748906
• 2018: The European Blame Game: Explaining Public Responsibility Attributions in the European Union. In: Kruck, Andreas/Oppermann, Kai/Spencer, Alexander (eds.): Political Mistakes and Policy Failures in International Relations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 171-189 (with Berthold Rittberger and Bernhard Zangl). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68173-3_8