Tobias Lenz
GEM-STONES Non-Academic Mentor
Host Institutions
Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany
Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) of Global Governance and Comparative Regionalism at the University of Goettingen, Germany
Research areas: international organizations, comparative regionalism, institutional design and evolution, legitimacy, EU foreign policy, diffusion.
Countries and regions of interest: Latin America; cross-regional
Books
- Hooghe, Liesbet / Tobias Lenz / Gary Marks (2019): A Theory of International Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
- Hooghe, Liesbet / Marks, Gary / Lenz, Tobias / Bezuijen, Jeanine / Ceka, Besir / Derderyan, Svet (2017): Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Peer-Reviewed articles
- Hooghe, Liesbet / Tobias Lenz / Gary Marks (2018): Contested World Order: The Delegitimation of International Governance, in: Review of International Organizations, online first, DOI: 10.1007/s11558-018-9334-3. [online view]
- Lenz, Tobias (2018): Frame Diffusion and Institutional Choice in Regional Economic Cooperation, in: International Theory, 10 (1), pp. 31-70. [open access]
- Duina, Francesco / Tobias Lenz (2017): Democratic Legitimacy in Regional Economic Organizations: The European Union in Comparative Perspective, in: Economy and Society, 46 (3-4), pp. 398-431.
- Lenz, Tobias / Viola, Lora (2017): Legitimacy and Institutional Change in International Organizations: A Cognitive Approach, in: Review of International Studies, 43 (5), pp. 939-961. [open access]
- Lenz, Tobias / Burilkov, Alexandr (2016): Institutional Pioneers in World Politics: Regional Institution Building and the Influence of the European Union, in: European Journal of International Relations, 23 (3), pp. 654-680. [open access]
- Duina, Francesco / Lenz, Tobias (2016): Regionalism and Diffusion Revisited: From Final Design Towards Stages of Decision-Making, in: Review of International Studies, 42 (4), pp. 773-797.
- Hebel, Kai / Lenz, Tobias (2016): The Identity/Policy Nexus in European Foreign Policy, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 23 (4), pp. 473-491.
- Lenz, Tobias / Bezuijen, Jeanine / Hooghe, Liesbet / Marks, Gary (2015): Patterns of International Organization: Task Specific vs. General Purpose, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 49, pp. 131-156.
- Lenz, Tobias (2013): EU Normative Power and Regionalism: Ideational Diffusion and Its Limits, in: Cooperation and Conflict, 48 (2), pp. 211-228.
- Jetschke, Anja / Lenz, Tobias (2013): Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda for the Study of Regional Organizations, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 20 (4), pp. 626-637.
- Lenz, Tobias (2012): Spurred Emulation: The EU and Regional Integration in Mercosur and SADC, in: West European Politics, 35 (1), pp. 155-174.
- Jetschke, Anja / Lenz, Tobias (2011): Vergleichende Regionalismusforschung und Diffusion: Eine neue Forschungsagenda, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 52 (3), pp. 448-474.
Chapters in edited volumes
- Lenz, Tobias (2019): EU Entrepreneurship, Norm Diffusion and the Creation of Regional Parliamentary Assemblies, in: Kolja Raube / Meltem Müftüler Bac / Jan Wouters (Eds.) Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations: An Essential Companion, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).
- Lenz, Tobias / Striebinger, Kai (2017): Vergleichender Regionalismus, in: Simon Koschut (Ed) Regionen und Regionalismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag.
- Lenz, Tobias / Marks, Gary (2016): Regional Institutional Design: Delegation and Pooling, in: Tanja Börzel / Thomas Risse (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 513-537.
Book reviews
- Lenz, Tobias (2017): Alexandru Grigorescu, Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? Normative Pressures and Decision-Making Rules (Cambridge University Press, 2015), in: Review of International Organizations, 12(1), pp. 151-155.
