Her research area is international political sociology with particular interests in global governance, the politics of development and the relationship between economy and society focusing on political actors and practices at the transnational level and the role of ideas and norms in international politics. Specifically, her research focuses on international organizations and multinational corporations, and issues of legitimacy and accountability in international politics. Furthermore, she has expertise in welfare state studies and neocorporatism.

Her most recently completed research project is a comparative study of the evolution of the World Bank’s and the IMF’s development strategies. She is currently working on a book relating to this project; a monograph entitled Poverty of Plenty. A volume on the topic co-edited with Susan Park (University of Sydney) entitled Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank was published in October 2010. Theoretically, the book is located in the literature on norms in IR. It discusses how IOs come to 'own' - what we call - global development policy norms and how these might contribute to a new norm complex - or not - which goes beyond the so-called Washington Consensus.

She is working on two other projects. The first, entitled Political Conditions for Corporate Social Voluntarism investigates the politics of market authority and regulatory mixes in developing countries. Specifically, it examines the political conditions under which MNCs choose corporate social voluntarism – understood as the choice to extend support to new forms of collaboration and policies for the social protection of employees and their communities. In addition, together with Professor Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg) she is co-investigator in a project entitled FishEU – Contested Norms of Fishery Governance which intends to study implications of policy making in the fishery sector for involved parties such as fisherpersons, government agencies (within and outside EU territory), international organizations and companies. The core of the project is to find out how international norms and rules are negotiated and practiced in specific contexts.

Furthermore, since 2008 she has been Associate Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Journal of International Relations and Development .

 

 

Book

2002: Gewerkschaften ohne Vollbeschäftigung, Westdeutscher Verlag. (with Peter Bleses)

 

Edited Collections

2011: ‘Forum: Development Issues in Africa’, Journal of International Relations and Development 14(1): 96-150.

2010: Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press. (with Susan Park)

2009: ’Forum: Everyday Responses to Marketization: Post-Socialism at the Grassroots’, Journal of International Relations and Development 12(4): 349-426. (with Stephen Deets and Sherrill Stroschein)

 

Journal Articles

2012: ’Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty’, New Political Economy 17(1): forthcoming.

2010: ‘Theorizing Transnational Corporations as Social Actors: An Analysis of Corporate Motivations’, Business and Politics 12(1): 1-39. (with Dana L. Brown and Anne Roemer-Mahler)

2009: ‘Everyday Post-Socialism’, Journal of International Relations and Development 12(4): 349-54. (with Stephen Deets and Sherrill Stroschein)

2008: ‘Rethinking Global Governance: Market Actors and Accountability’, La Revista delle Politiche Sociali, 1: 325-357. (with Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Italian title: ‘Ripensando la global governance: attori economici e responsibilità sociale’)

2007: ‘Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and the Role of Social Policies. The Evolution of the World Bank’s Social Development Approach’, Global Governance 13: 513-533.

2003: ‘Die Gewerkschaften in der Zerreissprobe’, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, October. (with Peter Bleses)

 

Book Chapters

2010: ‘Introduction: Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank’, in: Park, Susan and Antje Vetterlein (eds.): Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press: 3-26. (with Susan Park)

2010: ‘Lacking Ownership: The IMF and its Engagement with Social Development as a Global Policy Norm’, in: Park, Susan and Antje Vetterlein (eds.): Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press: 93-112.

2010: ‘Conclusion: The BWIs as Global Policy Norm Advocates and the Future of International Development’, in: Park, Susan and Antje Vetterlein (eds.): Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, Cambridge University Press: 225-247. (with Susan Park)

2010: ‘Gode gerninger betaler sig… - men er den internationale regulering af virksomheder tilstrækkelig?’, in: Kaspersen, Lars Bo; Joachim Lund and Helby Petersen, Ole (eds.) Offentligt Eller Privat?: Historiske og Aktuelle Udfordringer I Politik og Økonomi, Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag: 69-85. (with Stine Jessen Haakonsson, English title: ‘Doing Well by Doing Good – A Sufficient Accountability Mechanism for MNCs?’)

2010: ‘Personlighed og Usikkerhed I Internationale Økonomiske Organisationer’, in: Kaspersen, Lars Bo; Joachim Lund and Helby Petersen, Ole (eds.) Offentligt Eller Privat?: Historiske og Aktuelle Udfordringer I Politik og Økonomi, Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag: 301-315. (with Leonard Seabrooke, English title: ‘Personality and Uncertainty in International Economic Organizations’)

2006: ‘Change in International Organizations: Innovation or Adaptation? A Comparison of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund’, in: Stone, Diane; Christopher Wright (eds.): The World Bank and Governance, Routledge, London: 125-144.