Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation is a research project exploring why, how, and under what conditions countries’ political regimes affect how they behave in international cooperation. The project is funded by the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

A key feature of global governance is the possibility to monitor governments alleged of noncompliance with international treaties. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) routinely conduct onthe-spot monitoring missions to assess if governments are violating international conventions.

Why, how, and with what consequences do global governance institutions gain, sustain and lose legitimacy? These issues are at the heart of LegGov – a six-year research program in Stockholm, Lund, and Gothenburg.

This project studies how the roles of European lawyers as guardians of the rule of law are being renegotiated and redefined under increasing pressure to act as ‘police’ or agents of the state in combating the crimes of money laundering and terrorism financing.

Since the 1990s fundamental transformations of international organizations (IOs) such as the World Trade Organization and the African Union have taken place, witnessing a shift from interstate cooperation to the involvement of transnational actors (TNAs), such as non-governmental organizations and social movements.

The Design of International Institutions: Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Distribution in Global Governance. Why have international institutions over the past decades increasingly opened up to transnational actors, such as NGOs, social movements, and multinational corporations?

Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a technological upheaval with the potential to transform human society and is increasingly viewed by states and international organizations as an area of strategic importance.

The Performance of International Organizations: Institutional Design and Policy Output in Global Governance.

Is it feasible to put global warming to a halt? To reach the climate goals, scholars agree that supply-side mitigation policies must be complemented with demand-side strategies, targeting the consumer end of GHG emissions.

The growing threat of cyber warfare to democratic societies have placed new actors at the frontline: government communicators. This project studies how turning these professionals into intelligence agents redefines and renegotiates the boundaries between the civil and military sectors, including analyses of the democratic implications thereof.