Kilian Spandler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kilian Spandler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kilian |
| FAMILY NAME | Spandler |
| SIGNATURE | SPANDLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1507-4988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Problem‐Solving by Low‐Authority International Organizations: Ecowas ' Covid‐19 Response
Dominant theories stipulate that high levels of authority are a prerequisite for effective problem‐solving by international organizations (IOs). How, then, can we explain that African health organizations possess relatively low levels of authority, yet their response to COVID‐19 has been touted as a remarkable success? In this article, we explain how low‐authority IOs can engage in effective problem‐solving. By rethinking the conventional zero‐su…
Rethinking democracy in global network governance: Norm Polysemy, Pluralism, and Agonistic Engagement
This article examines the democratic potential of global network governance. It critiques conventional legitimacy frameworks that focus on the institutional qualities of governance networks for evading deeper ethical questions about how to deal with diversity as a fundamental condition of global life. Drawing on contestation theory, English School pluralism, and radical democratic theory, I argue that democratic network governance thrives by embr…
Beyond exit: How Populist Governments Disengage From International Institutions
There is a widespread belief among scholars and policy-makers that populism has fuelled a unilateralist backlash because of its emphasis on nationalism, popular sovereignty and identity politics. Although a few populist governments have indeed withdrawn from some international institutions, this 'disengagement hypothesis' needs to be scrutinized and unpacked. In this article, we develop a framework that distinguishes between four types of institu…
Sovereignty scripts and regional governance: Asean’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
This article seeks to advance our understanding of the role of sovereignty for regional governance, with a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We argue that important insights into this issue can be gleaned by analyzing how ASEAN has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most existing research on ASEAN considers sovereignty an obstacle to effective regional governance without further interrogating it conceptually. Such a mo…
Enacting the Security Community: Asean's Never-Ending Story by Stéphanie Martel
Journal Article Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN's Never-Ending Story by Stéphanie Martel Get access Stéphanie Martel. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp. $70.00. Kilian Spandler Kilian Spandler University of Gothenburg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-4988 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad091, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad091 Published: 19 Sep…
Populist (de)legitimation of international organizations
The rise of populists to power in many states around the world has caused concern among defenders of multilateralism and the so-called liberal international order. Due to their frequent attacks on established international organizations (IOs), populists are often falsely portrayed as unilateralists. Our article addresses the apparent contradiction that populist leaders delegitimate certain IOs but actively legitimate others, and examines on what …
Beyond Effectiveness: The Political Functions of Asean’s Disaster Governance
Why do Southeast Asian states use regional mechanisms for disaster relief? From a conventional functionalist perspective, inadequate domestic-level responses to emergencies create a demand for scaled-up governance. This article offers an alternative interpretation of disaster cooperation in Southeast Asia. Drawing on theoretical insights from comparative regionalism and critical disaster studies, it argues that the raison d’être of the Associatio…
On the meaning(s) of norms: Ambiguity and global governance in a post-hegemonic world
This article offers a new conceptualisation of the meaning of norms in world politics. It starts from the observation that existing norm scholarship in International Relations has underestimated the role of ambiguity in the constitution of norm meaning. To address this shortcoming, we advance a conceptualisation that sees norm polysemy – the empirically observable plurality of norm meanings-in-use – as resulting from the enactment of inherently a…
Unamid and the Legitimation of Global-Regional Peacekeeping Cooperation: Partnership and Friction in UN-AU Relations
The ‘hybrid' United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was initially hailed as a model for peacekeeping cooperation between the UN and African regional organizations. However, UNAMID soon faced contestation from different stakeholders, and the UN and the AU have now essentially abandoned the hybrid approach. The article reconstructs how the mission’s deteriorating legitimacy relates to changing self-legitimation strategies by the tw…
The English School as a theory and a scholarly community
It is becoming customary to define the English School (ES) as a group of scholars participating in a common inquiry related to a few central concepts, notably that of international society. Although the roots of the ES are often attributed to the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics, it is now said to be more of an open society of impersonal ties rather than an exclusive community based on personal relations. But how true is …
Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia
ASEAN member states have invested substantially in cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). Despite broad support for the idea of ‘localizing’ HADR governance, the rise of regional agency has in practice led to uncertainty and frictions between humanitarian stakeholders. The article makes sense of these tensions by investigating the narratives through which intra- and extraregional agents construct the role of the ASEAN …
The political international society: Change in primary and secondary institutions
This article intends to contribute to the theorising of institutional change. Specifically, it asks how dynamics in the ‘deep structure’ of international society correspond to changes in more specific institutions as embodied by regimes and international organisations. It does so by taking up the distinction of primary and secondary institutions in international society advocated by scholars of the English School. It argues that, while the differ…
EU, US and Asean Actorness in G20 Financial Policy‐Making: Bridging the EU Studies–New Regionalism Divide
This article compares the European Union's (EU) actorness in foreign financial policy to that of the US and ASEAN. It thus contributes to the dialogue between EU studies and the New Regionalism by putting it into practice through comparative research. It argues that a process‐oriented interpretation of the actorness concept can be used to compare the EU to both nation‐states and international organizations at the same time. This makes it possible…
On the meaning(s) of norms: Ambiguity and global governance in a post-hegemonic world
This article offers a new conceptualisation of the meaning of norms in world politics. It starts from the observation that existing norm scholarship in International Relations has underestimated the role of ambiguity in the constitution of norm meaning. To address this shortcoming, we advance a conceptualisation that sees norm polysemy – the empirically observable plurality of norm meanings-in-use – as resulting from the enactment of inherently a…
The political international society: Change in primary and secondary institutions
This article intends to contribute to the theorising of institutional change. Specifically, it asks how dynamics in the ‘deep structure’ of international society correspond to changes in more specific institutions as embodied by regimes and international organisations. It does so by taking up the distinction of primary and secondary institutions in international society advocated by scholars of the English School. It argues that, while the differ…
Populist (de)legitimation of international organizations
The rise of populists to power in many states around the world has caused concern among defenders of multilateralism and the so-called liberal international order. Due to their frequent attacks on established international organizations (IOs), populists are often falsely portrayed as unilateralists. Our article addresses the apparent contradiction that populist leaders delegitimate certain IOs but actively legitimate others, and examines on what …
Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia
ASEAN member states have invested substantially in cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). Despite broad support for the idea of ‘localizing’ HADR governance, the rise of regional agency has in practice led to uncertainty and frictions between humanitarian stakeholders. The article makes sense of these tensions by investigating the narratives through which intra- and extraregional agents construct the role of the ASEAN …
Unamid and the Legitimation of Global-Regional Peacekeeping Cooperation: Partnership and Friction in UN-AU Relations
The ‘hybrid' United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was initially hailed as a model for peacekeeping cooperation between the UN and African regional organizations. However, UNAMID soon faced contestation from different stakeholders, and the UN and the AU have now essentially abandoned the hybrid approach. The article reconstructs how the mission’s deteriorating legitimacy relates to changing self-legitimation strategies by the tw…
EU, US and Asean Actorness in G20 Financial Policy‐Making: Bridging the EU Studies–New Regionalism Divide
This article compares the European Union's (EU) actorness in foreign financial policy to that of the US and ASEAN. It thus contributes to the dialogue between EU studies and the New Regionalism by putting it into practice through comparative research. It argues that a process‐oriented interpretation of the actorness concept can be used to compare the EU to both nation‐states and international organizations at the same time. This makes it possible…
Beyond exit: How Populist Governments Disengage From International Institutions
There is a widespread belief among scholars and policy-makers that populism has fuelled a unilateralist backlash because of its emphasis on nationalism, popular sovereignty and identity politics. Although a few populist governments have indeed withdrawn from some international institutions, this 'disengagement hypothesis' needs to be scrutinized and unpacked. In this article, we develop a framework that distinguishes between four types of institu…
Sovereignty scripts and regional governance: Asean’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
This article seeks to advance our understanding of the role of sovereignty for regional governance, with a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We argue that important insights into this issue can be gleaned by analyzing how ASEAN has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most existing research on ASEAN considers sovereignty an obstacle to effective regional governance without further interrogating it conceptually. Such a mo…
Beyond Effectiveness: The Political Functions of Asean’s Disaster Governance
Why do Southeast Asian states use regional mechanisms for disaster relief? From a conventional functionalist perspective, inadequate domestic-level responses to emergencies create a demand for scaled-up governance. This article offers an alternative interpretation of disaster cooperation in Southeast Asia. Drawing on theoretical insights from comparative regionalism and critical disaster studies, it argues that the raison d’être of the Associatio…
The English School as a theory and a scholarly community
It is becoming customary to define the English School (ES) as a group of scholars participating in a common inquiry related to a few central concepts, notably that of international society. Although the roots of the ES are often attributed to the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics, it is now said to be more of an open society of impersonal ties rather than an exclusive community based on personal relations. But how true is …
The political international society: Change in primary and secondary institutions
This article intends to contribute to the theorising of institutional change. Specifically, it asks how dynamics in the ‘deep structure’ of international society correspond to changes in more specific institutions as embodied by regimes and international organisations. It does so by taking up the distinction of primary and secondary institutions in international society advocated by scholars of the English School. It argues that, while the differ…
EU, US and Asean Actorness in G20 Financial Policy‐Making: Bridging the EU Studies–New Regionalism Divide
This article compares the European Union's (EU) actorness in foreign financial policy to that of the US and ASEAN. It thus contributes to the dialogue between EU studies and the New Regionalism by putting it into practice through comparative research. It argues that a process‐oriented interpretation of the actorness concept can be used to compare the EU to both nation‐states and international organizations at the same time. This makes it possible…
Unamid and the Legitimation of Global-Regional Peacekeeping Cooperation: Partnership and Friction in UN-AU Relations
The ‘hybrid' United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was initially hailed as a model for peacekeeping cooperation between the UN and African regional organizations. However, UNAMID soon faced contestation from different stakeholders, and the UN and the AU have now essentially abandoned the hybrid approach. The article reconstructs how the mission’s deteriorating legitimacy relates to changing self-legitimation strategies by the tw…
The English School as a theory and a scholarly community
It is becoming customary to define the English School (ES) as a group of scholars participating in a common inquiry related to a few central concepts, notably that of international society. Although the roots of the ES are often attributed to the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics, it is now said to be more of an open society of impersonal ties rather than an exclusive community based on personal relations. But how true is …
Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia
ASEAN member states have invested substantially in cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). Despite broad support for the idea of ‘localizing’ HADR governance, the rise of regional agency has in practice led to uncertainty and frictions between humanitarian stakeholders. The article makes sense of these tensions by investigating the narratives through which intra- and extraregional agents construct the role of the ASEAN …
On the meaning(s) of norms: Ambiguity and global governance in a post-hegemonic world
This article offers a new conceptualisation of the meaning of norms in world politics. It starts from the observation that existing norm scholarship in International Relations has underestimated the role of ambiguity in the constitution of norm meaning. To address this shortcoming, we advance a conceptualisation that sees norm polysemy – the empirically observable plurality of norm meanings-in-use – as resulting from the enactment of inherently a…
Beyond Effectiveness: The Political Functions of Asean’s Disaster Governance
Why do Southeast Asian states use regional mechanisms for disaster relief? From a conventional functionalist perspective, inadequate domestic-level responses to emergencies create a demand for scaled-up governance. This article offers an alternative interpretation of disaster cooperation in Southeast Asia. Drawing on theoretical insights from comparative regionalism and critical disaster studies, it argues that the raison d’être of the Associatio…
Sovereignty scripts and regional governance: Asean’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
This article seeks to advance our understanding of the role of sovereignty for regional governance, with a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We argue that important insights into this issue can be gleaned by analyzing how ASEAN has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most existing research on ASEAN considers sovereignty an obstacle to effective regional governance without further interrogating it conceptually. Such a mo…
Enacting the Security Community: Asean's Never-Ending Story by Stéphanie Martel
Journal Article Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN's Never-Ending Story by Stéphanie Martel Get access Stéphanie Martel. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp. $70.00. Kilian Spandler Kilian Spandler University of Gothenburg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-4988 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad091, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad091 Published: 19 Sep…
Populist (de)legitimation of international organizations
The rise of populists to power in many states around the world has caused concern among defenders of multilateralism and the so-called liberal international order. Due to their frequent attacks on established international organizations (IOs), populists are often falsely portrayed as unilateralists. Our article addresses the apparent contradiction that populist leaders delegitimate certain IOs but actively legitimate others, and examines on what …
Beyond exit: How Populist Governments Disengage From International Institutions
There is a widespread belief among scholars and policy-makers that populism has fuelled a unilateralist backlash because of its emphasis on nationalism, popular sovereignty and identity politics. Although a few populist governments have indeed withdrawn from some international institutions, this 'disengagement hypothesis' needs to be scrutinized and unpacked. In this article, we develop a framework that distinguishes between four types of institu…
Problem‐Solving by Low‐Authority International Organizations: Ecowas ' Covid‐19 Response
Dominant theories stipulate that high levels of authority are a prerequisite for effective problem‐solving by international organizations (IOs). How, then, can we explain that African health organizations possess relatively low levels of authority, yet their response to COVID‐19 has been touted as a remarkable success? In this article, we explain how low‐authority IOs can engage in effective problem‐solving. By rethinking the conventional zero‐su…
Rethinking democracy in global network governance: Norm Polysemy, Pluralism, and Agonistic Engagement
This article examines the democratic potential of global network governance. It critiques conventional legitimacy frameworks that focus on the institutional qualities of governance networks for evading deeper ethical questions about how to deal with diversity as a fundamental condition of global life. Drawing on contestation theory, English School pluralism, and radical democratic theory, I argue that democratic network governance thrives by embr…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · International Development and Aid (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)