Johannes’ dissertation project is entitled “The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence,” and focuses on features of emerging international AI regimes, specifically actor preferences, bargaining dynamics, and institutional design. Johannes is writing a compilation doctoral thesis. The first paper to be discussed at the midterm seminar, analyzes preference divergence at the negotiations over global lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) regulation within the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and explains why constraining regulations are – despite high functional demand – absent. The second paper to be presented at the midterm seminar describes and explains the EU’s member states’ bargaining success in the negotiations of the EU AI Act using novel data. A co-authored research agenda on the topic has appeared in International Studies Review and a second co-aothored work is forthcoming at Business and Politics. During the 2024 spring semester, Johannes is a departmental guest at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.