Diana Panke is Professor of International Relations at Freie Universitä t Berlin. Previously she held positions at the University of Freiburg and University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of global or regional international organizations, regime complexity, international negotiations, and small states in international relations, as well as explanatory research on international norms. Her work is theory-driven, methodologically sound, and empirical in nature.
Sö ren Stapel is Senior Lecturer at the Center for International Relations at Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universitä t Berlin. He previously held positions in Freiburg, Jena, and Gothenburg. His research interests include international organizations, comparative regionalism, norm and policy diffusion, financing of international and regional organizations, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, as well as overlapping regionalism and regime complexity.