2017
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Organizational Structure and Agency Slack
German Research Foundation (DFG) Funds Multi-Method Research Project on Organizational Structure and Agency Slack New DFG Project “International Bureaucracies as ‘Runaway Agents’? How Organizational Structure Affects Agency Slack”, Principal Investigator: Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (TU Munich), 2018–2021 Project Summary: “Over the past decades states have delegated extensive decision-making authority to the administrative bodies of international organizations. These international bureaucracies are setting… Continue reading →
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Contemporary Security Policy
Joining the Editorial Board of Contemporary Security Policy I’m honored and excited to be joining the Editorial Board of Contemporary Security Policy, as recently announced by CSP Editor-in-Chief Hylke Dijkstra. “One of the oldest peer reviewed journals in international conflict and security, Contemporary Security Policy promotes theoretically-based research on policy problems of armed conflict, intervention and conflict resolution. Since it… Continue reading →
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Sektionstagung Internationale Beziehungen
5th Convention of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) At the IB-Sektionstagung, I co-organized a panel on QCA in International Relations (with Nina Guérin). I also presented my chapter “Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Non-State Actors” from the Routledge volume Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Theory & Practice (edited by Andreas Kruck… Continue reading →
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Interim Professor at the Brandt School
Covering for the Franz Haniel Chair for Public Policy In the Winter Term 2017/18, I will be Interim Franz Haniel Professor for Public Policy at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. During this time, I will be on leave at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich [see contact… Continue reading →
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ISA San Francisco 2018 Program Announced
59th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, 4-7 April 2018, San Francisco The ISA has announced its program for the 2018 convention. I’m excited to be involved with papers in two panels. The first panel on parliaments and security policy includes papers that are part of a forthcoming special issue of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations… Continue reading →
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ECPR General Conference, Oslo 2017
Panel P050: “Closed and Coopted? Parliamentary Oversight when Security is at Stake” Paper: “The Unintended Consequences of Parliamentary War Powers: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and Germany” (with Philippe Lagassé) Abstract: “This paper argues that there is a need to question whether parliamentary war powers actually lead to the intended effects of increased democratic deliberation and responsiveness. We compare the… Continue reading →
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ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques 2017
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets Patrick A. Mello (Week 1), Carsten Q. Schneider (Week 2), and Nena Oana (Teaching Assistant) Methods Course taught for the European Consortium for Political Research at Central European University, Budapest, 27 July – 7 August 2017 Course Outline: “This course introduces participants to set-theoretic methods and their application in the social sciences with a… Continue reading →
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Two-Level Games in Foreign Policy Analysis
Chapter Published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics da Conceição-Heldt, Eugénia and Patrick A. Mello (2017) Two-Level Games in Foreign Policy Analysis, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press (DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.496). Article Summary: “Whether in multilateral negotiations or bilateral meetings, government leaders regularly engage in “two-level games” played simultaneously at the domestic and the… Continue reading →
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Parliaments in Peace and Security Policy
Parliaments in Peace and Security Policy: Recent Research on the Parliamentary Control of Military Missions Abstract: “Since the 1990s, parliaments in many democracies have become more involved in the formulation and implementation of security policy. A growing number of studies in comparative politics and international relations address this phenomenon and examine the role of parliaments in decisions on war and… Continue reading →
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Researching Non-State Actors in International Security
Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Theory and Practice Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Non-State Actors (Chapter 9) Mello, Patrick A. (2017) Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Non-State Actors, in Andrea Schneiker and Andreas Kruck ed., Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Theory & Practice, London: Routledge, 123-142. Book Abstract: “All researchers face the same challenge,… Continue reading →
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Lecture at Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven
Patrick A. Mello on ‘Parliamentary Rebellion in Cases of War and Peace? Comparing the UK and Germany’ Jean Monnet Network PACO, 2017 Spring Lecture Series: Rebels With a Cause? Parliamentary Resilience in European and Global Governance Lecture Series Introduction: “European and global governance have in common that they refer to policy-making and problem-solving beyond traditional nation states. Often, the role… Continue reading →
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Special Issue on “Parliaments and Security Policy”
Proposal for a Special Issue on “Parliaments and Security Policy” Accepted by BJPIR The Editors of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) have accepted a proposal for a special issue on “Parliaments and Security Policy”, guest-edited by Patrick A. Mello and Dirk Peters, to be published in early 2018. Summary: This special issue zeroes in on the… Continue reading →
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Book Review in Perspectives on Politics
Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict Reviewed by Anja Jetschke (University of Göttingen) The new issue of Perspectives on Politics (15: 1) contains a review of Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). From the review: “Patrick A. Mello addresses a set of important questions: Why and under what conditions do democracies participate in armed conflict? Do constitutional provisions that… Continue reading →
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The British House of Commons and the Conflicts in Libya and Syria
Curbing the Royal Prerogative to Use Military Force: The British House of Commons and the Conflicts in Libya and Syria Abstract: “To what extent does political practice under the British Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–2015) reflect a ‘parliamentary prerogative’? From a formal-institutional point of view one should not expect substantial parliamentary influence in Britain. Yet recent developments suggest the emergence of… Continue reading →
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Two Entries Published in The SAGE Encyclopedia of War
Democratic Peace Theory Abstract: “Democracies almost never go to war against each another. This simple observation has acquired the status of an empirical law in the social sciences. Yet, while democracies tend to have peaceful relations with one another, this is not to claim that democracies are generally less war-prone than other regime types. To the contrary, many empirical studies… Continue reading →