Monika Heupel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1053579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika Heupel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | Heupel |
| SIGNATURE | HEUPEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9328-1432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Relational legitimation in dense institutional environments
It is a truism that legitimacy is relational inasmuch as an international institution’s legitimacy hinges on how it is perceived by relevant audiences. What is less discussed is that legitimation practices may have another strong relational dimension as well, in which institutions portray themselves as being related to respected others. While the idea that international institutions associate themselves with others to borrow their legitimacy is n…
How Expert Committees Become Group Agents
The UN human rights treaty bodies—groups of experts tasked with monitoring how states implement international human rights conventions—are increasingly portrayed as powerful collective entities with agency. This article focuses on one mechanism that helps collectives of individuals become group agents, namely internal self-legitimation. By internal self-legitimation, we mean practices such as narratives and rituals enacted by a group that ascribe…
Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners
It is well known that in the wake of 9/11, the United States committed various extraterritorial human rights violations, that is, human rights violations against foreigners outside of its territory. What is less known is that the United States has gradually introduced safeguards that are, at least on paper, meant to prevent its counter-terrorism policies from causing harm to foreigners abroad or, at least, to mitigate such harm. Based on three ca…
Emergency Politics After Globalization
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures—this formula is all too familiar in the domestic setting. Governments have often played loose with their state's constitution in the name of warding off an urgent threat. But after decades of increasing interconnectedness and emerging transnational governance, today one sees new forms of emergency politics that are cross-border in range. From the European Union to the World Health Organization, from…
The Intricacies of UN Security Council Reform
The only way forward would be a grand bargain under which actors holding maximalist positions gave them up and agreed to a ‘reforms lite’ compromise
Rising Powers, UN Security Council Reform, and the Failure of Rhetorical Coercion
Despite repeated calls for reform, the UN Security Council has as yet resisted to satisfy the demands of a group of rising powers – Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan (G4) – for a permanent seat. We focus on one strategy of institutional adaptation to power shifts mentioned in the introductory article to this special issue and examine why the G4’s rhetorical coercion strategy has failed to resonate with the Council’s permanent members and the wide…
The Politics of Legitimation in International Organizations
To govern effectively, international organizations (IOs) crucially depend on legitimation and support from their member states. But which states claim legitimacy for IOs, which challenge their legitimacy, and why? We address this gap in the literature by analyzing the legitimation strategies that states use in institutionalized discursive spaces within IOs. Specifically, we examine how United Nations (UN) member states seek to legitimate or deleg…
Indirect Accountability for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations
This article examines how states and international organizations can be held to account for extraterritorial human rights violations. I develop and investigate the potential of what I call an “indirect accountability” mechanism. In indirect accountability relationships, accountability fora do not directly hold states and international organizations that commit extraterritorial human rights violations to account as these are frequently immune to d…
International organisations and human rights
Human rights violations by international organisations (IOs) are a possible side effect of their growing authority. Recent examples are the cases of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and violations caused by IMF austerity measures. In response, IOs increasingly develop safeguards to protect human rights from being violated through their policies to regain legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call …
Protecting the Individual from International Authority
Notes on Chapters 3–6
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Notes on Chapters 11–12
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Democracy and democratisation
Post-conflict reconstruction first appeared on the agenda of the United Nations (UN) and multilateral development agencies in the early and mid-1990s. With the end of the Cold War, many proxy wars in developing countries came to an end and other conflicts in weak and failing states escalated, so that new strategies were needed to create the conditions for self-sustaining peace in post-conflict settings. In this context, the UN and other global an…
Friedenskonsolidierung Im Zeitalter der ,,neuen Kriege
The Legitimacy of the UN Security Council
Existing research on the legitimacy of the UN Security Council is conceptual or theoretical, for the most part, as scholars tend to make legitimacy assessments with reference to objective standards. Whether UN member states perceive the Security Council as legitimate or illegitimate has yet to be investigated systematically; nor do we know whether states care primarily about the Council's compliance with its legal mandate, its procedures, or its …
With power comes responsibility
The ability to violate and the duty to protect human rights have traditionally been ascribed to states. Yet, since international organizations increasingly take decisions that directly affect individuals, it has been alleged that they, too, have human rights obligations. Against this background, we can witness a trend among international organizations establishing provisions to prevent human rights violations and to enable individuals to hold the…
On the transformation of warfare
Multilateral sanctions against terror suspects and the violation of due process standards
Journal Article Multilateral sanctions against terror suspects and the violation of due process standards Get access MONIKA HEUPEL MONIKA HEUPEL 1Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 307–321, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00795.x Published: 03 March 2009
Combining Hierarchical and Soft Modes of Governance
In the wake of 9/11, the UN Security Council (SC) set out to urge every UN member to strengthen its domestic capacity to counter transnational terrorism and the heightened risk of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation to non-state actors. This article examines the modes of governance the SC applied — in terms of both setting and implementing rules — to influence states' activities in response to these two security threats. The far-reach…
Adapting to Transnational Terrorism
During the 1990s, and particularly since 9/11, state-sponsored terrorism gradually declined, while transnational terrorism, which largely operates without direct state support and features cross-border network structures and a greater propensity to mass-casualty attacks, has gained in importance. Setting out from this observation, the purpose of this article is to examine whether the UN Security Council (SC) has adapted to transnational terrorism…
Shadow trade war economies and their challenge to peacebuilding
Friedenskonsolidierung im Zeitalter der „neuen Kriege“
Wie lässt sich im Zeitalter der "neuen Kriege" Friedenskonsolidierung erfolgreich gestalten? Dieser Frage geht Monika Heupel anhand der Kriege in Kambodscha, Angola, Sierra Leone und Afghanistan nach. Dabei zeigt sie, dass das herkömmliche Instrumentarium zur Befriedung "neuer Kriege" nicht ausreicht. Um diese dauerhaft zu beenden, sind die Gewaltökonomien, vermehrt basierend auf Schmuggel von Diamanten, Holz und Drogen, wirksamer zu bekämpfen. D…
Friedenskonsolidierung im Zeitalter der „neuen Kriege”
The Legitimacy of the UN Security Council
Existing research on the legitimacy of the UN Security Council is conceptual or theoretical, for the most part, as scholars tend to make legitimacy assessments with reference to objective standards. Whether UN member states perceive the Security Council as legitimate or illegitimate has yet to be investigated systematically; nor do we know whether states care primarily about the Council's compliance with its legal mandate, its procedures, or its …
Emergency Politics After Globalization
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures—this formula is all too familiar in the domestic setting. Governments have often played loose with their state's constitution in the name of warding off an urgent threat. But after decades of increasing interconnectedness and emerging transnational governance, today one sees new forms of emergency politics that are cross-border in range. From the European Union to the World Health Organization, from…
Combining Hierarchical and Soft Modes of Governance
In the wake of 9/11, the UN Security Council (SC) set out to urge every UN member to strengthen its domestic capacity to counter transnational terrorism and the heightened risk of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation to non-state actors. This article examines the modes of governance the SC applied — in terms of both setting and implementing rules — to influence states' activities in response to these two security threats. The far-reach…
With power comes responsibility
The ability to violate and the duty to protect human rights have traditionally been ascribed to states. Yet, since international organizations increasingly take decisions that directly affect individuals, it has been alleged that they, too, have human rights obligations. Against this background, we can witness a trend among international organizations establishing provisions to prevent human rights violations and to enable individuals to hold the…
Adapting to Transnational Terrorism
During the 1990s, and particularly since 9/11, state-sponsored terrorism gradually declined, while transnational terrorism, which largely operates without direct state support and features cross-border network structures and a greater propensity to mass-casualty attacks, has gained in importance. Setting out from this observation, the purpose of this article is to examine whether the UN Security Council (SC) has adapted to transnational terrorism…
The Politics of Legitimation in International Organizations
To govern effectively, international organizations (IOs) crucially depend on legitimation and support from their member states. But which states claim legitimacy for IOs, which challenge their legitimacy, and why? We address this gap in the literature by analyzing the legitimation strategies that states use in institutionalized discursive spaces within IOs. Specifically, we examine how United Nations (UN) member states seek to legitimate or deleg…
On the transformation of warfare
Shadow trade war economies and their challenge to peacebuilding
Indirect Accountability for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations
This article examines how states and international organizations can be held to account for extraterritorial human rights violations. I develop and investigate the potential of what I call an “indirect accountability” mechanism. In indirect accountability relationships, accountability fora do not directly hold states and international organizations that commit extraterritorial human rights violations to account as these are frequently immune to d…
International organisations and human rights
Human rights violations by international organisations (IOs) are a possible side effect of their growing authority. Recent examples are the cases of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and violations caused by IMF austerity measures. In response, IOs increasingly develop safeguards to protect human rights from being violated through their policies to regain legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call …
Multilateral sanctions against terror suspects and the violation of due process standards
Journal Article Multilateral sanctions against terror suspects and the violation of due process standards Get access MONIKA HEUPEL MONIKA HEUPEL 1Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 307–321, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00795.x Published: 03 March 2009
Friedenskonsolidierung im Zeitalter der „neuen Kriege“
Wie lässt sich im Zeitalter der "neuen Kriege" Friedenskonsolidierung erfolgreich gestalten? Dieser Frage geht Monika Heupel anhand der Kriege in Kambodscha, Angola, Sierra Leone und Afghanistan nach. Dabei zeigt sie, dass das herkömmliche Instrumentarium zur Befriedung "neuer Kriege" nicht ausreicht. Um diese dauerhaft zu beenden, sind die Gewaltökonomien, vermehrt basierend auf Schmuggel von Diamanten, Holz und Drogen, wirksamer zu bekämpfen. D…
Friedenskonsolidierung im Zeitalter der „neuen Kriege”
Shadow trade war economies and their challenge to peacebuilding
Adapting to Transnational Terrorism
During the 1990s, and particularly since 9/11, state-sponsored terrorism gradually declined, while transnational terrorism, which largely operates without direct state support and features cross-border network structures and a greater propensity to mass-casualty attacks, has gained in importance. Setting out from this observation, the purpose of this article is to examine whether the UN Security Council (SC) has adapted to transnational terrorism…
Combining Hierarchical and Soft Modes of Governance
In the wake of 9/11, the UN Security Council (SC) set out to urge every UN member to strengthen its domestic capacity to counter transnational terrorism and the heightened risk of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation to non-state actors. This article examines the modes of governance the SC applied — in terms of both setting and implementing rules — to influence states' activities in response to these two security threats. The far-reach…
Multilateral sanctions against terror suspects and the violation of due process standards
Journal Article Multilateral sanctions against terror suspects and the violation of due process standards Get access MONIKA HEUPEL MONIKA HEUPEL 1Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 307–321, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00795.x Published: 03 March 2009
On the transformation of warfare
With power comes responsibility
The ability to violate and the duty to protect human rights have traditionally been ascribed to states. Yet, since international organizations increasingly take decisions that directly affect individuals, it has been alleged that they, too, have human rights obligations. Against this background, we can witness a trend among international organizations establishing provisions to prevent human rights violations and to enable individuals to hold the…
Friedenskonsolidierung Im Zeitalter der ,,neuen Kriege
The Legitimacy of the UN Security Council
Existing research on the legitimacy of the UN Security Council is conceptual or theoretical, for the most part, as scholars tend to make legitimacy assessments with reference to objective standards. Whether UN member states perceive the Security Council as legitimate or illegitimate has yet to be investigated systematically; nor do we know whether states care primarily about the Council's compliance with its legal mandate, its procedures, or its …
Democracy and democratisation
Post-conflict reconstruction first appeared on the agenda of the United Nations (UN) and multilateral development agencies in the early and mid-1990s. With the end of the Cold War, many proxy wars in developing countries came to an end and other conflicts in weak and failing states escalated, so that new strategies were needed to create the conditions for self-sustaining peace in post-conflict settings. In this context, the UN and other global an…
Protecting the Individual from International Authority
Notes on Chapters 3–6
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Notes on Chapters 11–12
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International organisations and human rights
Human rights violations by international organisations (IOs) are a possible side effect of their growing authority. Recent examples are the cases of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and violations caused by IMF austerity measures. In response, IOs increasingly develop safeguards to protect human rights from being violated through their policies to regain legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call …
Indirect Accountability for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations
This article examines how states and international organizations can be held to account for extraterritorial human rights violations. I develop and investigate the potential of what I call an “indirect accountability” mechanism. In indirect accountability relationships, accountability fora do not directly hold states and international organizations that commit extraterritorial human rights violations to account as these are frequently immune to d…
Rising Powers, UN Security Council Reform, and the Failure of Rhetorical Coercion
Despite repeated calls for reform, the UN Security Council has as yet resisted to satisfy the demands of a group of rising powers – Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan (G4) – for a permanent seat. We focus on one strategy of institutional adaptation to power shifts mentioned in the introductory article to this special issue and examine why the G4’s rhetorical coercion strategy has failed to resonate with the Council’s permanent members and the wide…
The Politics of Legitimation in International Organizations
To govern effectively, international organizations (IOs) crucially depend on legitimation and support from their member states. But which states claim legitimacy for IOs, which challenge their legitimacy, and why? We address this gap in the literature by analyzing the legitimation strategies that states use in institutionalized discursive spaces within IOs. Specifically, we examine how United Nations (UN) member states seek to legitimate or deleg…
Emergency Politics After Globalization
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures—this formula is all too familiar in the domestic setting. Governments have often played loose with their state's constitution in the name of warding off an urgent threat. But after decades of increasing interconnectedness and emerging transnational governance, today one sees new forms of emergency politics that are cross-border in range. From the European Union to the World Health Organization, from…
The Intricacies of UN Security Council Reform
The only way forward would be a grand bargain under which actors holding maximalist positions gave them up and agreed to a ‘reforms lite’ compromise
Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners
It is well known that in the wake of 9/11, the United States committed various extraterritorial human rights violations, that is, human rights violations against foreigners outside of its territory. What is less known is that the United States has gradually introduced safeguards that are, at least on paper, meant to prevent its counter-terrorism policies from causing harm to foreigners abroad or, at least, to mitigate such harm. Based on three ca…
How Expert Committees Become Group Agents
The UN human rights treaty bodies—groups of experts tasked with monitoring how states implement international human rights conventions—are increasingly portrayed as powerful collective entities with agency. This article focuses on one mechanism that helps collectives of individuals become group agents, namely internal self-legitimation. By internal self-legitimation, we mean practices such as narratives and rituals enacted by a group that ascribe…
Relational legitimation in dense institutional environments
It is a truism that legitimacy is relational inasmuch as an international institution’s legitimacy hinges on how it is perceived by relevant audiences. What is less discussed is that legitimation practices may have another strong relational dimension as well, in which institutions portray themselves as being related to respected others. While the idea that international institutions associate themselves with others to borrow their legitimacy is n…
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