Articles by Anja Jetschke

June 4, 2026

When international organisations grow, power spreads

Anja Jetschke
Regional organisations are increasingly powerful players on the global stages, accumulating authority that once belonged to sovereign states. However, Anja Jetschke and Samuel Standaert show that as these organisations grow, they distribute their power over different organs, creating checks and balances and increasing their organisational capacity
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Anja Jetschke
Professor of International Relations, Institute of Political Science, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Anja has been in her current role since April 2012.

She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2001.

Her research focuses on the emergence and effects of the institutional design of international and regional organisations and China’s global influence.

She is speaker of the Graduate Program China Grasp: China’s Geoeconomics Rise and Accumulation of Structural Power funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2026-2031).

Anja's recent publications have been published in International Studies Quarterly and Political Research Exchange.

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