Prof. Anna Leander and Prof. Thomas Biersteker, two associated faculty members of the Global Governance Centre, have published their latest research on the themes of governance and conflict, dispute settlement and peace-building.

Governance
Publishing in flagship journals continues to serve as the most popular indicator of International Relations (IR)’s trajectory and configuration in the emergent literature. Jonas Hagmann and Thomas Biersteker challenge this focus (in The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations, eds. Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Nicholas Onuf, London: SAGE, August 2018, chapter 30) by arguing that the preferred metric normalises implicit understanding of IR’s stakes and structures, and that an alternative cartography of IR can help direct attention to further scholarly goals and practices. In the same SAGE Handbook, Anna Leander contributes with chapter 27 entitled "International Relations expertise at the interstices of fields and assemblages".

Conflict, Dispute Settlement and Peacebuilding
Thomas Biersteker draws attention on conflict, dispute settlement and peacebuilding with his contribution to Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South (edited by Anna Leander and Ole Waever, Routledge, July 2018, chapter 8, p. 153–169), where he reflects on the embodiment of a specific form of expertise (and its exclusionary ignorance) in an App about the purpose, effectiveness and consequences of UN targeted sanctions. More information  on the App here.