Prof. Dr. Anja P. Jakobi and Lena Herbst authored a PRIF Spotlight about the ongoing negotiations regarding the UN Cybercrime Convention. The paper examines the process and content of the draft convention, and gives some policy recommenations regarding its adoption.
Link: blog.prif.org/2024/12/09/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-the-un-cybercrime-convention/
PD Dr. Tobias Ide, Associate Professor at Murdoch University in Australia and also a Privatdozent at the Institute for International Relations at TU Braunschweig, has been ranked as the top researcher (1st place) in the field of International Relations and Diplomacy by The Australian magazine.
In November, Prof. Dr. Anja P. Jakobi will be a visiting researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), an internationally active Leibniz Institute that she is familiar with from her time as a post-doc. She is delighted to return there once again. During her stay, she will work in the "International Institutions" program (led by Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff) on her ongoing monograph on cities and security.
From September 24 to 27, 2024, the 29th Congress of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) took place at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen under the theme “Politics in Polycrisis.” The Institute for International Relations (IIR) was actively involved in various roles at the largest political science conference in the German-speaking world. In addition to participating in discussions (including with the German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius), attending general assemblies, and organizing panels, the IIR presented its latest research.
The URBANORMS team organized the panel “Städte und Politik in Mehrebenensystemen: Von der Lokalpolitik über Urban Diplomacy zu globalen Städtenetzwerken”, chaired by Prof. Dr. Anja P. Jakobi, with Dr. Bastian Loges as discussant. In this session, Ronja Haenschen, M.A., presented her paper “Digitalizing Municipal Governance: International City Networks as Drivers of the Global Diffusion of Digital Urban Governance Initiatives.” Additionally, Anja P. Jakobi and Bastian Loges jointly presented their paper, “Urban Networking and Global Norms: Towards a Better Understanding of International City Networks.”
Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Anja P. Jakobi and Dr. Bastian Loges presented their paper “Stabilising Contested Normative Orders: How International City Networks Prevent Norm Decay” in the panel “Internationale Normforschung (1): Theoretische Kontroversen und methodische Innovationen.”
Lena Herbst, M.A., also contributed actively to the conference with the following presentations: “Sealing or Breaking the Deal? Transnational Actors and the UN Convention on Cybercrime” on the panel “Effektivität internationaler Institutionen in der Polykrise”, “Status as Key: Participation of Transnational Actors in UN Cybersecurity Negotiations” on the panel “Die Innen- und Außenbeziehungen internationaler Organisationen: Delegation, Design, Kooperation und Konfrontation”, and as chair of the panel “Internationale Organisationen in Krisen: Autoritätstransfer, Improvisation und Öffnung.”