Book Project

Designing Global Governance of Crime

My book project, Designing Global Governance of Crime, explores how and why states adopt different institutional designs to address transnational organized crime at the international level. 

Focusing on variation in design, I pay particular attention to different forms of implementation mechanisms and propose a new way to measure monitoring processes, conceptualized more precisely than typical references to delegation or centralization.

By tracing the negotiation histories of the Firearms Trafficking Regime and the Drug Control Regime, I show how historically entrenched organizational cultures, shaped by delegates in diverse venues, can influence the outcomes of treaties, even within the same issue area.

Through comparative case analysis and process tracing, drawing on data from archival research, interviews, and participant observation at the United Nations in Vienna (where I conducted six months of fieldwork), I examine the negotiation processes behind agreements governing firearms trafficking and drug trafficking.