Nele Kortendiek
Biographic Data
| ID | 2558364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nele Kortendiek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nele |
| FAMILY NAME | Kortendiek |
| SIGNATURE | KORTENDIEK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6011-1253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk
When and how do international organizations (IOs) adapt their policies to external critique? This article examines IO policy change in response to civil society contestation in global drug governance. In the face of strong societal opposition, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) changed its drug policies, whereas the policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) remained largely unchanged. This is surprising because UNODC has b…
From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations
This article addresses critical gaps in the literature on crisis-driven policy change in international organisations. While existing studies focus on elite decision-making and institutional resilience, the role of frontline crisis managers remains under-explored in International Relations. Using the European migration and refugee crisis as a case study and drawing on insights from organisation studies and the sociology of the professions, the art…
Caught between Vulnerability and Competence - UNHCR's Visual Framing of Refugees, Economic Threat Perceptions and Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers in Germany
Humanitarian actors often present refugees as vulnerable to mobilize support. Their visual framing, in particular, moves refugees’ helplessness to the center. Critical scholars, however, argue that this representation can have exclusionary effects. In this article, we outline a research agenda to examine this claim empirically and provide initial results testing it. Based on a survey experiment, we show that vulnerability representations have sig…
Beyond authority
How do international organizations (IOs) govern transnational challenges? Most theories maintain that IOs exercise authority to govern. What these authority-focused accounts tend to overlook, however, are instances of de facto governance. Especially in emerging, contested, and crisis-ridden issue areas, authority has often not been established or become unsettled. Yet, IOs govern here, too. Take the example of migration and asylum: This policy fi…
How to govern mixed migration in Europe
Mixed migration is an international regime in the making. The migration and refugee crisis put the topic high on the global agenda and multilateral initiatives like the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees have started to address it. However, it is a contested policy issue and agreement on legally binding instruments is difficult to achieve. While formal global mixed migration governance is thus only emerging, in this article I argue that i…
How to govern mixed migration in Europe
Mixed migration is an international regime in the making. The migration and refugee crisis put the topic high on the global agenda and multilateral initiatives like the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees have started to address it. However, it is a contested policy issue and agreement on legally binding instruments is difficult to achieve. While formal global mixed migration governance is thus only emerging, in this article I argue that i…
Beyond authority
How do international organizations (IOs) govern transnational challenges? Most theories maintain that IOs exercise authority to govern. What these authority-focused accounts tend to overlook, however, are instances of de facto governance. Especially in emerging, contested, and crisis-ridden issue areas, authority has often not been established or become unsettled. Yet, IOs govern here, too. Take the example of migration and asylum: This policy fi…
How to govern mixed migration in Europe
Mixed migration is an international regime in the making. The migration and refugee crisis put the topic high on the global agenda and multilateral initiatives like the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees have started to address it. However, it is a contested policy issue and agreement on legally binding instruments is difficult to achieve. While formal global mixed migration governance is thus only emerging, in this article I argue that i…
Beyond authority
How do international organizations (IOs) govern transnational challenges? Most theories maintain that IOs exercise authority to govern. What these authority-focused accounts tend to overlook, however, are instances of de facto governance. Especially in emerging, contested, and crisis-ridden issue areas, authority has often not been established or become unsettled. Yet, IOs govern here, too. Take the example of migration and asylum: This policy fi…
Caught between Vulnerability and Competence - UNHCR's Visual Framing of Refugees, Economic Threat Perceptions and Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers in Germany
Humanitarian actors often present refugees as vulnerable to mobilize support. Their visual framing, in particular, moves refugees’ helplessness to the center. Critical scholars, however, argue that this representation can have exclusionary effects. In this article, we outline a research agenda to examine this claim empirically and provide initial results testing it. Based on a survey experiment, we show that vulnerability representations have sig…
Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk
When and how do international organizations (IOs) adapt their policies to external critique? This article examines IO policy change in response to civil society contestation in global drug governance. In the face of strong societal opposition, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) changed its drug policies, whereas the policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) remained largely unchanged. This is surprising because UNODC has b…
From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations
This article addresses critical gaps in the literature on crisis-driven policy change in international organisations. While existing studies focus on elite decision-making and institutional resilience, the role of frontline crisis managers remains under-explored in International Relations. Using the European migration and refugee crisis as a case study and drawing on insights from organisation studies and the sociology of the professions, the art…
Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Refugee (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Bureaucracy (1 work)