Janne Mendes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janne Mendes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendes |
| SIGNATURE | MENDES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7111-6209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union
Transparency is a key concern in global governance scholarship, yet its contribution to good governance remains deeply ambivalent. Scholars are increasingly questioning the idea of transparency as a silver bullet, emphasizing the need to better understand its potential, pitfalls, and regulatory challenges. This article focuses on the field of business and human rights (BHR), and recent regulatory advancements in human rights due diligence (HRDD) …
The Transitional Order of Climate Governance
There is a discrepancy in global climate governance between acknowledging the need to act on climate change and the failure to effectively implement such action. A pivotal reason for this discrepancy is the temporal dilemma woven into democratic transition processes: the tension between the demand for short-term and immediate action on one hand, and the time-consuming requirements of democratic governance on the other. Common perceptions of clima…
Transitional Orders in World Politics
The current international landscape is marked by the decline of established global and regional orders without the full emergence of new ones. We argue that this “time-in-between” is characterized by transitional orders—interim configurations of power, norms, and governance that emerge as actors respond to systemic disruptions and shifting global dynamics. While International Relations (IR) scholarship has extensively studied the rise and fall of…
Substance- or legitimacy-oriented (de)legitimation of global governance institutions. The double-edged role of complexity
This paper contributes to International Relations studies on the (de)legitimation of global governance institutions by introducing a focus on substance-oriented (de)legitimation practices to complement existing legitimacy-oriented perspectives.Building on the distinction between performance and performativity, the paper clarifies the concepts of performing (de)legitimation as legitimacyoriented and performative (de)legitimation as substance-orien…
Liberal-democratic norms under contestation
This article studies the contestation of liberal - democratic norms from within the liberal international order (LIO), focusing on the case of abortion rights. The US Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion, central to both domestic and global debates, provide a compelling case study of how two opposing sides may invoke the same norms, rather than presenting a case of norm collision or co-optation. In contrast to the binary pro-choice versus anti-a…
Public Interests and the Legitimation of Global Governance Actors
Notions of public interests or common goods present a major reference point for the legitimation of global governance and global governors, yet they are rarely subject to closer analysis. After highlighting how a connection to public interests plays a shared pivotal role in legitimating public and private global governance actors alike, this article suggests an expanded understanding of public interests as consisting of a substantive element, an …
Publics in Global Politics
In IR and beyond, there is considerable debate about the ways global governance, the transnationalisation of publics, and changes in communication technologies have affected the interplay between publics and global politics. This debate is characterised by disagreements about how to conceptualise publics in the global realm—and whether or not they exist in the first place. We seek to contribute to this debate by disentangling the various meanings…
The hidden contestation of norms
The question of whether global norms are experiencing a crisis allows for two concurrent answers. From a facticity perspective, certain global norms are in crisis, given their worldwide lack of implementation and effectiveness. From a validity perspective, however, a crisis is not obvious, as these norms are not openly contested discursively and institutionally. In order to explain the double diagnosis (crisis/no crisis), this article draws on in…
Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities
This framing paper to the special issue deals with one of the key human rights challenges today: the effective regulation of business in a globalized economy and the expansion of the roles corporate actors play beyond the private realm. It discusses three ideal-typical approaches to the public-private divide that characterizes the human rights responsibilities of corporations. First, the dichotomy approach is based on a classic dichotomous view, …
Business authority in global governance
International studies investigate the governance authority of state versus non-state actors in terms of their public or private authority. However, the public–private distinction does not sufficiently capture the variety of governance actors, or the forms of their authority, beyond that distinction. Focussing on businesses, this paper argues that certain governance actors assume public and private roles, as well as a third category of roles it ca…
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime
The symposium “Governance Authority in Business and Human Rights” explores the authority of non-state actors in the global business and human rights (BHR) regime. Our point of departure is that the involvement of different public and private actors in the BHR regime rests on their authority as governance actors. This alludes most obviously to companies, but also includes other actors. In this framing paper, we investigate these actors’ governance…
Extended qualitative content analysis
Purpose This paper aims to introduce the extended qualitative content analysis (EQCA) method to integrate data-reducing and data-complicating research steps when conducting qualitative research on the United Nations and other international institutions. Design/methodology/approach EQCA supplements the method of qualitative content analysis, which enables researchers to deal with large amounts of data, with two elements from grounded theory, which…
The contestation and construction of global governance authorities
The contestation of global governance institutions can strengthen or weaken, as well as transform, them. This article analyses the productive potential of contestation and justification of global governance institutions by examining the multiple authorities that are invoked as auxiliaries in the process. It studies the (re-)construction of these authorities by dissecting authority into three components: power, legitimacy and connection to public …
Norm convergence and collision in regime overlaps. Business and human rights in the UN and the EU
This paper investigates how practices of (de)legitimation deal with regime overlaps by invoking the convergence or collision of norms, rules and procedures in regime complexes. It brings together two strands of International Relations literature – the concept of regime complexes and (de)legitimating practices in global governance institutions – to analyse the UN Treaty Process as a case study in the field of business and human rights. It makes th…
At the Junction
This article develops a conceptual pattern of the reasons and scope of business responsibility for modern slavery. It introduces modern slavery as either relation or structure and designs an understanding of a broad and a narrow model of business responsibility, consisting of business power, internal and external realms of business conduct and public and private roles of companies. Crossing the two models of modern slavery with the two models of …
Einfach komplex? Die Übersetzung politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität in die Gesellschaft
Der Artikel diskutiert die Herausforderungen des Transfers politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität in die Gesellschaft. Wir unterscheiden dafür zwischen den drei idealtypischen Modellen a) einer Vereinfachung von Komplexität, b) der Abbildung von Komplexität sowie c) der Übersetzung von Komplexität. Die Anforderungen an das dritte Modell einer Übersetzung politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität entwickeln wir anhand fachdidaktischer Diskussionen der …
Are human rights western—And why does it matter? A perspective from international political theory
A widespread assumption alleges that human rights are not universal, as they claim to be, but are instead Western oriented. Yet a growing body of research provides evidence that human rights are not just Western. Both perspectives are critical of repressive dimensions in the human rights regime, though they recommend different approaches to addressing them. This article explores both viewpoints from an International Political Theory perspective. …
The Concept of Modern Slavery
Amartya Sen
Ruth Benedict
The Imperative of Indigeneity
Die Privatheit der Privatsphäre
Janne Mende macht geltend, dass die Grenze ›öffentlich-privat‹ gesellschaftlich produziert und deshalb dauernd im Wandel sei. Sie zeigt, wie ihre wechselseitige Beeinflussung die beiden Sphären im Innersten betrifft. Mit der Wendung von der ›Privatisierung der Privatsphäre‹ analysiert sie außerdem das zunehmende Eindringen der Privatwirtschaft in den Bereich des Privaten. Sie plädiert für öffentliche Debatten um das Recht auf Privatsphäre, die ab…
Kultur, Volk und Rasse. Die deutsche Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung
Anthropos , Seite 529 - 546
Business authority in global governance
International studies investigate the governance authority of state versus non-state actors in terms of their public or private authority. However, the public–private distinction does not sufficiently capture the variety of governance actors, or the forms of their authority, beyond that distinction. Focussing on businesses, this paper argues that certain governance actors assume public and private roles, as well as a third category of roles it ca…
The Concept of Modern Slavery
Are human rights western—And why does it matter? A perspective from international political theory
A widespread assumption alleges that human rights are not universal, as they claim to be, but are instead Western oriented. Yet a growing body of research provides evidence that human rights are not just Western. Both perspectives are critical of repressive dimensions in the human rights regime, though they recommend different approaches to addressing them. This article explores both viewpoints from an International Political Theory perspective. …
Publics in Global Politics
In IR and beyond, there is considerable debate about the ways global governance, the transnationalisation of publics, and changes in communication technologies have affected the interplay between publics and global politics. This debate is characterised by disagreements about how to conceptualise publics in the global realm—and whether or not they exist in the first place. We seek to contribute to this debate by disentangling the various meanings…
Extended qualitative content analysis
Purpose This paper aims to introduce the extended qualitative content analysis (EQCA) method to integrate data-reducing and data-complicating research steps when conducting qualitative research on the United Nations and other international institutions. Design/methodology/approach EQCA supplements the method of qualitative content analysis, which enables researchers to deal with large amounts of data, with two elements from grounded theory, which…
Liberal-democratic norms under contestation
This article studies the contestation of liberal - democratic norms from within the liberal international order (LIO), focusing on the case of abortion rights. The US Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion, central to both domestic and global debates, provide a compelling case study of how two opposing sides may invoke the same norms, rather than presenting a case of norm collision or co-optation. In contrast to the binary pro-choice versus anti-a…
Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities
This framing paper to the special issue deals with one of the key human rights challenges today: the effective regulation of business in a globalized economy and the expansion of the roles corporate actors play beyond the private realm. It discusses three ideal-typical approaches to the public-private divide that characterizes the human rights responsibilities of corporations. First, the dichotomy approach is based on a classic dichotomous view, …
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime
The symposium “Governance Authority in Business and Human Rights” explores the authority of non-state actors in the global business and human rights (BHR) regime. Our point of departure is that the involvement of different public and private actors in the BHR regime rests on their authority as governance actors. This alludes most obviously to companies, but also includes other actors. In this framing paper, we investigate these actors’ governance…
Norm convergence and collision in regime overlaps. Business and human rights in the UN and the EU
This paper investigates how practices of (de)legitimation deal with regime overlaps by invoking the convergence or collision of norms, rules and procedures in regime complexes. It brings together two strands of International Relations literature – the concept of regime complexes and (de)legitimating practices in global governance institutions – to analyse the UN Treaty Process as a case study in the field of business and human rights. It makes th…
Kultur, Volk und Rasse. Die deutsche Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung
Anthropos , Seite 529 - 546
The Transitional Order of Climate Governance
There is a discrepancy in global climate governance between acknowledging the need to act on climate change and the failure to effectively implement such action. A pivotal reason for this discrepancy is the temporal dilemma woven into democratic transition processes: the tension between the demand for short-term and immediate action on one hand, and the time-consuming requirements of democratic governance on the other. Common perceptions of clima…
Transitional Orders in World Politics
The current international landscape is marked by the decline of established global and regional orders without the full emergence of new ones. We argue that this “time-in-between” is characterized by transitional orders—interim configurations of power, norms, and governance that emerge as actors respond to systemic disruptions and shifting global dynamics. While International Relations (IR) scholarship has extensively studied the rise and fall of…
Public Interests and the Legitimation of Global Governance Actors
Notions of public interests or common goods present a major reference point for the legitimation of global governance and global governors, yet they are rarely subject to closer analysis. After highlighting how a connection to public interests plays a shared pivotal role in legitimating public and private global governance actors alike, this article suggests an expanded understanding of public interests as consisting of a substantive element, an …
The hidden contestation of norms
The question of whether global norms are experiencing a crisis allows for two concurrent answers. From a facticity perspective, certain global norms are in crisis, given their worldwide lack of implementation and effectiveness. From a validity perspective, however, a crisis is not obvious, as these norms are not openly contested discursively and institutionally. In order to explain the double diagnosis (crisis/no crisis), this article draws on in…
The contestation and construction of global governance authorities
The contestation of global governance institutions can strengthen or weaken, as well as transform, them. This article analyses the productive potential of contestation and justification of global governance institutions by examining the multiple authorities that are invoked as auxiliaries in the process. It studies the (re-)construction of these authorities by dissecting authority into three components: power, legitimacy and connection to public …
At the Junction
This article develops a conceptual pattern of the reasons and scope of business responsibility for modern slavery. It introduces modern slavery as either relation or structure and designs an understanding of a broad and a narrow model of business responsibility, consisting of business power, internal and external realms of business conduct and public and private roles of companies. Crossing the two models of modern slavery with the two models of …
Einfach komplex? Die Übersetzung politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität in die Gesellschaft
Der Artikel diskutiert die Herausforderungen des Transfers politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität in die Gesellschaft. Wir unterscheiden dafür zwischen den drei idealtypischen Modellen a) einer Vereinfachung von Komplexität, b) der Abbildung von Komplexität sowie c) der Übersetzung von Komplexität. Die Anforderungen an das dritte Modell einer Übersetzung politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität entwickeln wir anhand fachdidaktischer Diskussionen der …
The Imperative of Indigeneity
Kultur, Volk und Rasse. Die deutsche Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung
Anthropos , Seite 529 - 546
Die Privatheit der Privatsphäre
Janne Mende macht geltend, dass die Grenze ›öffentlich-privat‹ gesellschaftlich produziert und deshalb dauernd im Wandel sei. Sie zeigt, wie ihre wechselseitige Beeinflussung die beiden Sphären im Innersten betrifft. Mit der Wendung von der ›Privatisierung der Privatsphäre‹ analysiert sie außerdem das zunehmende Eindringen der Privatwirtschaft in den Bereich des Privaten. Sie plädiert für öffentliche Debatten um das Recht auf Privatsphäre, die ab…
The Imperative of Indigeneity
Amartya Sen
Ruth Benedict
The Concept of Modern Slavery
Are human rights western—And why does it matter? A perspective from international political theory
A widespread assumption alleges that human rights are not universal, as they claim to be, but are instead Western oriented. Yet a growing body of research provides evidence that human rights are not just Western. Both perspectives are critical of repressive dimensions in the human rights regime, though they recommend different approaches to addressing them. This article explores both viewpoints from an International Political Theory perspective. …
At the Junction
This article develops a conceptual pattern of the reasons and scope of business responsibility for modern slavery. It introduces modern slavery as either relation or structure and designs an understanding of a broad and a narrow model of business responsibility, consisting of business power, internal and external realms of business conduct and public and private roles of companies. Crossing the two models of modern slavery with the two models of …
Einfach komplex? Die Übersetzung politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität in die Gesellschaft
Der Artikel diskutiert die Herausforderungen des Transfers politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität in die Gesellschaft. Wir unterscheiden dafür zwischen den drei idealtypischen Modellen a) einer Vereinfachung von Komplexität, b) der Abbildung von Komplexität sowie c) der Übersetzung von Komplexität. Die Anforderungen an das dritte Modell einer Übersetzung politikwissenschaftlicher Komplexität entwickeln wir anhand fachdidaktischer Diskussionen der …
The contestation and construction of global governance authorities
The contestation of global governance institutions can strengthen or weaken, as well as transform, them. This article analyses the productive potential of contestation and justification of global governance institutions by examining the multiple authorities that are invoked as auxiliaries in the process. It studies the (re-)construction of these authorities by dissecting authority into three components: power, legitimacy and connection to public …
Norm convergence and collision in regime overlaps. Business and human rights in the UN and the EU
This paper investigates how practices of (de)legitimation deal with regime overlaps by invoking the convergence or collision of norms, rules and procedures in regime complexes. It brings together two strands of International Relations literature – the concept of regime complexes and (de)legitimating practices in global governance institutions – to analyse the UN Treaty Process as a case study in the field of business and human rights. It makes th…
Business authority in global governance
International studies investigate the governance authority of state versus non-state actors in terms of their public or private authority. However, the public–private distinction does not sufficiently capture the variety of governance actors, or the forms of their authority, beyond that distinction. Focussing on businesses, this paper argues that certain governance actors assume public and private roles, as well as a third category of roles it ca…
The governance authority of non-state actors in the business and human rights regime
The symposium “Governance Authority in Business and Human Rights” explores the authority of non-state actors in the global business and human rights (BHR) regime. Our point of departure is that the involvement of different public and private actors in the BHR regime rests on their authority as governance actors. This alludes most obviously to companies, but also includes other actors. In this framing paper, we investigate these actors’ governance…
Extended qualitative content analysis
Purpose This paper aims to introduce the extended qualitative content analysis (EQCA) method to integrate data-reducing and data-complicating research steps when conducting qualitative research on the United Nations and other international institutions. Design/methodology/approach EQCA supplements the method of qualitative content analysis, which enables researchers to deal with large amounts of data, with two elements from grounded theory, which…
Public Interests and the Legitimation of Global Governance Actors
Notions of public interests or common goods present a major reference point for the legitimation of global governance and global governors, yet they are rarely subject to closer analysis. After highlighting how a connection to public interests plays a shared pivotal role in legitimating public and private global governance actors alike, this article suggests an expanded understanding of public interests as consisting of a substantive element, an …
Publics in Global Politics
In IR and beyond, there is considerable debate about the ways global governance, the transnationalisation of publics, and changes in communication technologies have affected the interplay between publics and global politics. This debate is characterised by disagreements about how to conceptualise publics in the global realm—and whether or not they exist in the first place. We seek to contribute to this debate by disentangling the various meanings…
The hidden contestation of norms
The question of whether global norms are experiencing a crisis allows for two concurrent answers. From a facticity perspective, certain global norms are in crisis, given their worldwide lack of implementation and effectiveness. From a validity perspective, however, a crisis is not obvious, as these norms are not openly contested discursively and institutionally. In order to explain the double diagnosis (crisis/no crisis), this article draws on in…
Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities
This framing paper to the special issue deals with one of the key human rights challenges today: the effective regulation of business in a globalized economy and the expansion of the roles corporate actors play beyond the private realm. It discusses three ideal-typical approaches to the public-private divide that characterizes the human rights responsibilities of corporations. First, the dichotomy approach is based on a classic dichotomous view, …
Substance- or legitimacy-oriented (de)legitimation of global governance institutions. The double-edged role of complexity
This paper contributes to International Relations studies on the (de)legitimation of global governance institutions by introducing a focus on substance-oriented (de)legitimation practices to complement existing legitimacy-oriented perspectives.Building on the distinction between performance and performativity, the paper clarifies the concepts of performing (de)legitimation as legitimacyoriented and performative (de)legitimation as substance-orien…
Liberal-democratic norms under contestation
This article studies the contestation of liberal - democratic norms from within the liberal international order (LIO), focusing on the case of abortion rights. The US Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion, central to both domestic and global debates, provide a compelling case study of how two opposing sides may invoke the same norms, rather than presenting a case of norm collision or co-optation. In contrast to the binary pro-choice versus anti-a…
Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union
Transparency is a key concern in global governance scholarship, yet its contribution to good governance remains deeply ambivalent. Scholars are increasingly questioning the idea of transparency as a silver bullet, emphasizing the need to better understand its potential, pitfalls, and regulatory challenges. This article focuses on the field of business and human rights (BHR), and recent regulatory advancements in human rights due diligence (HRDD) …
The Transitional Order of Climate Governance
There is a discrepancy in global climate governance between acknowledging the need to act on climate change and the failure to effectively implement such action. A pivotal reason for this discrepancy is the temporal dilemma woven into democratic transition processes: the tension between the demand for short-term and immediate action on one hand, and the time-consuming requirements of democratic governance on the other. Common perceptions of clima…
Transitional Orders in World Politics
The current international landscape is marked by the decline of established global and regional orders without the full emergence of new ones. We argue that this “time-in-between” is characterized by transitional orders—interim configurations of power, norms, and governance that emerge as actors respond to systemic disruptions and shifting global dynamics. While International Relations (IR) scholarship has extensively studied the rise and fall of…
Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law and economics (11 works) · Corporate governance (10 works) · Human rights (8 works) · Corporate Law and Human Rights (6 works) · Economics (6 works)