Sören Stapel

Sören Stapel

Publications

Books
  • Sören Stapel (2022) Regional Organizations and Democracy, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law: The African Union, Organization of Americas States, and the Diffusion of Institutions. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.     Direct access (DOI).     Introduction as PDF.
  • Diana Panke, Sören Stapel, and Anna Starkmann (2020) Comparing Regional Organizations: Global Dynamics and Regional Particularities. Bristol: Bristol University Press.     Direct access (DOI).
Articles
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (forthcoming) “Cooperation between International Organizations: Demands, Supply and Restraint”, The Review of International Organizations.
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (forthcoming) “Overlapping regionalism around the world: Introducing the overlapping regionalism dataset”, International Area Studies Review.    Direct access (DOI).
  • Sören Stapel, Diana Panke, and Frederik Söderbaum (forthcoming): “Regional International Organizations in Africa as Recipients of Foreign Aid: Why Are Some More Attractive to Donors than Others?”, Cooperation and Conflict.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (forthcoming) “Towards Increasing Regime Complexity? Why Member States Drive Overlaps between International Organizations”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations.    Direct access (DOI).
  • Sören Stapel and Fredrik Söderbaum (2023) “European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans”, Third World Quarterly, 44(8): 1699-1717.    Direct access (DOI).
  • Mathis Lohaus and Sören Stapel (2023) “Who commits to regional human rights treaties? Reputational benefits, sovereignty costs, and regional dynamics”, Journal of Human Rights, 22(3): 386-405.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Fredrik Söderbaum, Sören Stapel, and Sally Wennergren(2023): “‘Something to everyone’: Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa”, Development Policy Review, 41(4): e12684.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (2023) “Navigating Regional Regime Complexity: How and why does the European Union cooperate with regional organizations?”, Politics & Governance, 11(2): 97-108.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (2022) “Architects of Regional Regime Complexity: States and Regional Organizations in Europe”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 30(3): 387-404.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Ingo Henneberg and Sören Stapel (2020) “Cooperation and Conflict at the Horn of Africa: A New Regional Bloc Between Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia and Its Consequences for Eastern Africa”, Africa Spectrum, 55(3): 339-350.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (2018) “Overlapping Regionalism in Europe – Patterns and Effects”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20(1): 239-258.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (2018) “Exploring Overlapping Regionalism”, Journal of International Relations and Development 21(3): 635-662.     Direct access (DOI).
Chapters
  • Sören Stapel (forthcoming) “Transnational Actors and International Organizations”, Freistein, K., Leininger, J. and Weinlich, S. (eds.) Handbook of International Organizations. Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (forthcoming) “Multi-level Governance”, in De Lombaerde, P. (ed.) Handbook on Regional Cooperation and Integration. London: Edward Elgar.
  • Diana Panke and Sören Stapel (forthcoming) “North America in the world: Comparative regional dynamism in the 21st century”, in Hershberg, E. and Long, T. (eds.) North America: Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal? Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
  • Fredrik Söderbaum and Sören Stapel (2022) “Regionalism in Africa”, in Rüland, J. and Carrapatoso, A. (eds.) Handbook on Regionalism and Global Governance. London: Edward Elgar, 218-229.      Book.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Fredrik Söderbaum and Sören Stapel (2022) “External Actors and Security Regionalism in Africa: A New Dataset of External Funding”, in Muntschick, J. (ed.) New Regionalism and External Partnerships in the Global South. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 61-80.     Book.     Direct access (DOI).     PDF.
  • Sören Stapel and Fredrik Söderbaum (2020) “Mapping and problematizing external funding to the African Union and Regional Economic Communities”, in Engel, U. und Mattheis, F. (eds.) The Political Economy of Regional Security Organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America: Follow the Money. Abingdon: Routledge, 112-125.     Book.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Tanja A. Börzel and Sören Stapel (2015) “A Global Script in Regional Colours: Mapping Governance Transfer by Twelve Regional Organizations”, in Börzel, T. A. and van Hüllen, V. (eds) Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 22-48.     Book.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Veronika Kirschner and Sören Stapel (2012) “Does regime type matter? Regional integration from the nation states’ perspectives in ECOWAS”, in Börzel, T. A., Goltermann, L., Lohaus, M. and Striebinger, K. (eds.) Roads to Regionalism. Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Organizations. Farnham: Ashgate, 141-157.     Book.     Direct access (DOI).

Policy and public engagement
  • Fredrik Söderbaum, and Sören Stapel (2023) “A Manifesto for Regionalism in Africa”, UNU-CRIS Connecting Ideas.      Direct access (DOI).
  • Fredrik Söderbaum and Sören Stapel (2022) “Regional Organizations and Africa’s Development Challenges”. UNU-CRIS Policy Brief 06-2022.     Direct access (DOI).     PDF.
  • Fredrik Söderbaum and Sören Stapel (2022) “Agenda 2063 and the role of Africa’s overlapping regional organisations”. Maastricht: ECDPM Discussion Paper No. 317.     Direct access (DOI).     PDF.
  • Sören Stapel (2021) “Menschenrechte und die UN”, Unhörbar Podcast der DGVN.     Podcast episode.
  • Ingo Henneberg and Sören Stapel (2020) “Why a proposed Horn of Africa bloc could destabilise the larger region”, The Conversation, 8 September 2020.     Direct access (DOI).
  • Fredrik Söderbaum and Sören Stapel (2019) “Pan-African and Regional Organizations: Assessing their Relevance and Contribution in Tackling Africa’s Development Challenges”, Final Report for the African Capacity-Building Foundation, Harare.