Prof. Dr. Bernhard Zangl

Kurzbiografie

Bernhard Zangl ist Professor für „Global Governance and Public Policy“. Sowohl in seiner Lehre als auch in seiner Forschung untersucht er internationale Institutionen. Er analysiert beispielsweise die Anpassung internationaler Institutionen an globale Machtverschiebungen und befasst sich mit den aktuellen Herausforderungen für die internationale Ordnung. Darüber hinaus behandelt er in Forschung und Lehre unterschiedliche Formen des indirekten Regierens in internationalen Institutionen wie insbesondere Orchestration und Kooptation. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt seiner Forschung und Lehre befasst sich mit Loyalität in der Politik.

Bernhard Zangl hat an der Universität Tübingen Politikwissenschaft und Geschichtswissenschaft studiert und an der Universität Bremen promoviert. Bevor er 2009 nach München kam, war er Professor für Internationale Beziehungen an der Universität Bremen. Außerdem hat er verschiedene Gastaufenthalte an der Harvard University, am European University Institute, an der Northwestern University und am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin absolviert. Seine Forschungsarbeiten wurden u.a. in Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Organizations und Journal of European Public Policy veröffentlicht. Sein jüngstes Buch, das er gemeinsam mit Berthold Rittberger, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild und Lisa Kriegmair veröffentlicht hat, befasst sich mit „European Blame Games“. Dieses bei Oxford University Press erschienene Buch beschreibt die Bedingungen, unter denen öffentliche Schuldzuweisungen für Politikfehler der EU entweder vorwiegend auf europäische Institutionen abzielen (scapegoat games) oder einzelne Mitgliedstaaten betreffen (renegade games) oder aber diffus bleiben (diffusion games).

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Bücher

• European Blame Games. Where Does the Buck Stop? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024 (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Berthold Rittberger & Lisa Kriegmair)
• The Governor’s Dilemma. Indirect Governance Beyond Principals and Agents, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 (edited with Kenneth Abbott, Philipp Genschel and Duncan Snidal).
• Global Power Shifts: How Do International Institutions Adjust? Special Issue of Global Policy, 2020 (edited with Andreas Kruck).
• International Organizations as Orchestrators, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (edited with Kenneth Abbott, Philipp Genschel and Duncan Snidal).

Artikel

• It Pays to be Generous: How Cooptation Transforms Power Rivalries, in: Contemporary Security Policy 2025 (with Andreas Kruck).
• Cooptation in Great Power Rivalries: A Conceptual Framework, in: Contemporary Security Policy 2025 (with Gadi Heimann, Deganit Paikowsky, Andreas Kruck).
• The Politics of IO Authority Transfers: Explaining Informal Internationalisation and Unilateral Renationalisation, in: Journal of European Public Policy 2024 (with Christian Kreuder-Sonnen) https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2325008
• No Place to Hide: The Public Attribution of Responsibility for Policy Failures of International Organizations. In: Review of International Studies, 2024. Online first (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Juliane Glovania, and Louisa Klein-Bölting). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000330
• The Cooptation Dilemma: Explaining US Contestation of the Liberal Trade Order. In: Global Studies Quarterly 4:2, 2024, 1-12 (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild and Andreas Kruck). https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae024
• Blame Shifting and Blame Obfuscation: The Blame Avoidance Effects of Delegation in the European Union, in: European Journal of Political Research 62:1, 2023, 221-238 (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Berthold Rittberger and Lisa Kriegmair).
• Dolce far Niente? Non-compliance and Blame Avoidance in the EU, in: West European Politics 45:5, 2022, 1153-1174 (with Lisa Kriegmair, Berthold Rittberger, and Tim Heinkelmann-Wild).
• Beyond Opportunism: Intermediary Loyalty in Regulation and Governance, in: Regulation and Governance 15, 2021, 83-101 (with Kenneth Abbott, Philipp Genschel and Duncan Snidal).
• India’s Recognition as a Nuclear Power: A Case of Strategic Cooptation, in: Contemporary Security Policy 42:4, 2021, 530-553 (with Andreas Kruck and Patrick Frankenbach).
• Divided they Fail: The Politics of Wedge Issues and Brexit, in: Journal of European Public Policy 27:5, 2020, 723-741 (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Lisa Kriegmair, and Berthold Rittberger).
• Multi-level Blame Games. Blame-shifting in the EU, in: Governance 33:4, 2020, 953-969 (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild).
• Competence versus Control. The Governor’s Dilemma, in: Regulation and Governance 14:4, 2020, 619-636 (with Kenneth Abbott, Philipp Genschel and Duncan Snidal).
• Trading Privileges for Support: The Strategic Co-optation of Emerging Powers into International Institutions, in: International Theory, 11, 2019, 318–343 (with Andreas Kruck).
• Interactions between Hard and Soft Power: The Institutional Adaptation of International Intellectual Property Protection to Global Power Shifts, in: European Journal of International Relations 25:2, 2019, 588-612 (with Benjamin Daßler and Andreas Kruck).
• Where does the Buck Stop? Explaining Responsibility Attributions in Complex International Institutions, in: Journal of Common Market Studies 55:4, 2017, 909-924 (with Berthold Rittberger and Helena Schwarzenbeck).
• Imperfect Adaptation. How the WTO and the IMF Adjust to Shifting Power Distributions among their Members, in: The Review of International Organization 11:2, 2016, 171-196 (with Frederick Heussner, Xenia Lanzendörfer and Andreas Kruck).
• Two Logics of Indirect Governance. Delegation and Orchestration, in: British Journal of Political Science 46:4, 2016, 719-729 (with Kenneth Abbott, Philipp Genschel and Duncan Snidal).
• Which Post-Westphalia? International Organizations between Constitutionalism and Authoritarianism, in: European Journal of International Relations 21:3, 2015, 568-594 (with Christian Kreuder-Sonnen).
• State Transformations in OECD Countries. Towards the State as a Manager of Political Authority, in: Annual Review of Political Science 17, 2014, 337-354 (with Philipp Genschel).
• The Politicization of International Economic Institutions in US Public Debates, in: The Review of International Organization 8:3, 2013, 363-387 (with Thomas Rixen).
• Between Law and Politics. Explaining International Dispute Settlement Behavior, in: European Journal of International Relations 18:2, 2012, 369-401 (with Achim Helmedach, Aletta Mondré, Gerald Neubauer, Kerstin Blome and Alexander Kocks).
• Judicialization Matters! A Comparison of Dispute Settlement under GATT and the WTO, in: International Studies Quarterly 52:4, 2008, 825-854.
• The European Economic and Monetary Union. Two-level Games and the Formation of Inter¬national Institutions, in: European Journal of International Relations 2:3, 1996, 355-393 (with Dieter Wolf).