Former Visiting Scholar’s Paper on the Limits of International Civil Society Consultations

We received an update from 2023 IPDGC Visiting Scholar Christiane Cromm:

I am delighted to share with you that my article, which I have been
working on during my research stay at GWU, has finally been published with Global Society.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all again for
organising and discussing an earlier version of the manuscript. I
believe the article has benefited greatly from your feedback and
immensely valuable comments and I am very grateful for your time.

Her article argues that the opening up of international organisations (IOs) to the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) has not only failed to dismantle structures of rule. Rather, it should be understood as a perpetuation of rule, re-enacted in and through the everyday practices of IO-CSO interactions in dialogue forums.

See Christiane, Cromm (2024): Speaking the Right Language: Transnational Rule and  Symbolic Power in Dialogue Forums, Global Society, DOI:
10.1080/13600826.2024.2305415 (open access)

Christiane is a Ph.D canddiate at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.