Publications Using the IEADB

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• Adipudi, A. V., & R. E. Kim. (2024). The latent net effectiveness of institutional complexes: A heuristic model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 382(2270), 20230161.
• Ahlström, H., & S. E. Cornell. (2018). Governance, polycentricity and the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Environmental Science & Policy, 79, 54-65.
• Andonova, L. B., & R. B. Mitchell. (2010). The rescaling of global environmental politics. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 35(1), 255-282.
• Andonova, L. B., Hale, T. N., & C. B. Roger. (2017). National policy and transnational governance of climate change: Substitutes or complements? International Studies Quarterly, 61(2), 253-268.
• Angeon, V., & S. Bates. (2015). Reviewing composite vulnerability and resilience indexes: A sustainable approach and application. World Development, 72, 140-162.
• Axelrod, M. (2011). Savings clauses and the "chilling effect": Regime interplay as constraints on international governance. In S. Oberthur & O. S. Stokke, eds., Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change, 87-114. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Balsiger, J. (2012). New environmental regionalism and sustainable development in the European Alps. Global Environmental Politics, 12(3), 58-78.
• Balsiger, J., & S. D. VanDeveer. (2012). Navigating regional environmental governance. Global Environmental Politics, 12(3), 1-17.
• Balsiger, J., Prys M., & N. Steinhoff. (2012). Trade and investment liberalization as determinants of multilateral environmental agreement membership. The Nature and Role of Regional Agreements in International Environmental Politics: Mapping Agreements, Outlining Future Research. GIGA Working Paper No 208. Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
• Balsiger, J., & M. Prys. (2016). Regional agreements in international environmental politics. International Environmental Agreements: Politics Law and Economics, 16(2), 239-260.
• Bélanger, L., & J. F. Morin. (2024). Treaty amendment procedures: A typology from a survey of multilateral environmental agreements. Leiden Journal of International Law, 37(1), 62-87.
• Bernauer, T., & T. Böhmelt. (2013). Are economically “kinder, gentler societies” also greener? Environmental Science and Policy, 47(21), 11993-12001.
• Bernauer, T., et al. (2013). Is there a "depth versus participation" dilemma in international cooperation? Review of International Organizations, 8(4), 477-497.
• Besedeš, T., Johnson, E. P., & X., Tian. (2020). Economic determinants of multilateral environmental agreements. International Tax and Public Finance, 27(4), 832-864.
• Bigagli, E. (2016). The international legal framework for the management of the global oceans social-ecological system. Marine Policy, 68, 155-164.
• Boettcher, M., & R. E Kim. (2022). Arguments and architectures: Discursive and institutional structures shaping global climate engineering governance. Environmental Science & Policy, 128, 121-131.
• Böhmelt, T., & U. H. Pilster. (2010). International environmental regimes: Legalisation, flexibility and effectiveness. Australian Journal of Political Science, 45(2), 245-260.
• Böhmelt, T., Koubi, V., & T. Bernauer. (2023). Why populism may facilitate non-state actors’ access to international environmental institutions. Environmental Politics, 32(3), 511-531.
• Brandi, C., Blümer, D., & J. F. Morin. (2019). When do international treaties matter for domestic environmental legislation? Global Environmental Politics, 19(4), 14-44.
• Breitmeier, H., et al. (1996). The International Regimes Database as a tool for the study of international cooperation. IIASA Working Paper WP-96-160. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
• Breitmeier, H., Underdal, A., & O. R. Young. (2011). The effectiveness of international environmental regimes: comparing and contrasting findings from quantitative research. International Studies Review, 13(4), 579-605.
• Chirchi, D. (2005). The combined success of the International tropical timber agreements. Global Topics, 3.
• Chen, M., & Z. Xu. (2024). Assessing socio-ecological fit of international environmental agreements and trade-embodied carbon flows. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 106, 107534.
• Cirone, A. E., & J. Urpelainen. (2013). Trade sanctions in international environmental policy: Deterring or encouraging free riding? Conflict Management and Peace Science, 30(4), 309-334.
• Clark, W. C., Mitchell, R. B., & D. W. Cash. (2006). Evaluating the influence of global environmental assessments In R. B. Mitchell, W. C. Clark, D. W. Cash, & N. M. Dickson (Eds.), Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence (pp. 1-28). MIT Press.
• Corbetta, R., & A. G. Long. (2007). Major powers and membership in international environmental agreements. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 3-5, 2008.
• Dasgupta, P. (2024). The economics of biodiversity. Cambridge University Press.
• Downs, G. W., Rocke, D. M., & P. N. Barsoom. (1996). Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation? International organization, 50(3), 379-406.
• Egger, P., Jeßberger, C., & M. Larch. (2011). Trade and investment liberalization as determinants of multilateral environmental agreement membership. International Tax and Public Finance, 18, 605-633.
• Egger, P., Jeßberger, C., & M. Larch. (2013). Impacts of trade and the environment on clustered multilateral environmental agreements. The World Economy, 36(3), 331-348.
• Escobar Pemberthy, N. (2017). Environment, states, and international organizations: The role of global environmental conventions in protecting the environment. [PhD Thesis] University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America.
• European Environment Agency. (2010). Environmental agreements since 1900.
• Farias, D. B. L., & C. Roger. (2023). Differentiation in environmental treaty making: measuring provisions and how they reshape the depth–participation dilemma. Global Environmental Politics, 23(1), 117-132.
• Galbraith, K. (2014). Environmentalism is dead: How America abandoned its role as leader of the fight to save the planet -- and killed a movement. Foreign Policy, September 25.
• Green, J. F. (2008). Private authority in global environmental politics: Delegation to non-state actors in multilateral environmental treaties. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.
• Green, J. F. (2013). Rethinking private authority. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Green, J. F. (2017). Transnational delegation in global environmental governance: When do non-state actors govern? Regulation & Governance, 12(2), 263-276.
• Green, J. F., & J. Colgan. (2013). Protecting sovereignty, protecting the planet: state delegation to international organizations and private actors in environmental politics. Governance, 26(3), 473-497.
• Green, J. F., & J. Hadden. (2021). How did environmental governance become complex? Understanding mutualism between environmental NGOs and international organizations. International Studies Review, 23(4), 1792-1812.
• Gupta, A., & M. Mason. (2014). Transparency in global environmental governance: Critical perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Hasenclever, A., Mayer, P., & , V. Rittberger. (1996). Interests, power, knowledge: The study of international regimes. Mershon International Studies Review, 40(2), 177-228.
• Henckens, M. L. C. M., et al. (2018). Normative principles and the sustainable use of geologically scarce mineral resources. Resources Policy, 59, 351-359.
• Hoffmann, L. (2007). Data collection online: Techniques and traps when searching for (treaty-related) data on the WWW. International Studies Perspectives, 8(2), iv-vi.
• Hollway, J. (2015). The evolution of global fisheries governance, 1960-2010. Department of Politics and International Relations, [PhD thesis]. Oxford University, UK.
• Hollway, J., & J. Koskinen. (2016). Multilevel bilateralism and multilateralism: States’ bilateral and multilateral fisheries treaties and their secretariats. In E. Lazega & T. A. B. Snijders (Eds.), Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Applications (pp. 315-332). Springer International Publishing.
• Hollway, J., & J. Koskinen. (2016). Multilevel embeddedness: The case of the global fisheries governance complex. Social Networks, 44, 281-294.
• Hovi, J., Sprinz, D. F., & A. Underdal. (2003). The Oslo-Potsdam solution to measuring regime effectiveness: critique, response, and the road ahead. Global Environmental Politics, 3(3), 74-96.
• Huynh, N. K. (2025). Right-wing populists and the politics of renegotiating international environmental agreements. Global Environmental Politics, 25(1), 21-45.
• Jahn, D. (2009). International and domestic aspects of the institutionalization of environmental policies in industrial countries. Paper prepared for the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New York, February 15-18, 2009.
• Jessberger, C. (2010). Environmental Economics and Multilateral Environmental Agreements. [PhD thesis]. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
• Jo, H. (2007). The Design of Monitoring Institutions in Environmental Agreements: The Case of Fisheries Agreements. Paper presented at the International Studies Association, Chicago, February 28, 2007.
• Jo, H. (2008). Monitoring compliance: The design of monitoring institution in international cooperation. Department of Political Science, [PhD thesis]. University of Michigan, USA.
• Joyner, C. C. (2005). International law in the 21st century: rules for global governance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Kalbhenn, A. (2011). Liberal peace and shared resources: A fair-weather phenomenon? Journal of Peace Research, 48(6), 715-735.
• Kassab, D., & Zaki, C. (2020, October). Agree to disagree? Making sense of vagueness in international environmental agreements. Economic Research Forum Working Papers (No. 1405).
• Kayaalp, O. (2023). Exploring regional dynamics: States, international civil society, and regional interstate cooperation. [Phd Thesis] University of Central Florida, United States of America.
• Kim, R. E. (2013). The emergent network structure of the multilateral environmental agreement system. Global Environmental Change, 23(5), 980-991.
• Kim, R. E. (2013). Unravelling the maze of multilateral environmental agreements: A macroscopic analysis of international environmental law and governance for the anthropocene. [PhD thesis]. Australian National University, Australia.
• Kim, R. E. (2020). Is global governance fragmented, polycentric, or complex? The state of the art of the network approach. International Studies Review, 22(4), 903-931.
• Kim, R. E., & B. Mackey. (2014). International environmental law as a complex adaptive system. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 14, 5-24.
• Kim, R. E., & J. F. Morin. (2021). Massive institutional structures in global governance: A bird's-eye view of the trade-environment supercluster complex. Global Environmental Politics, 21(3), 26-48.
• Kim, Y. (2014). Essays on the effectiveness of international environmental agreements: quantitative analysis on environmental and economic aspects. International Studies, [PhD thesis]. Waseda University, Japan.
• Kim, Y., Tanaka, K., & S. Matsuoka. (2017). Institutional mechanisms and the consequences of international environmental agreements. Global environmental politics, 17(1), 77-98.
• Kolcava, D., Nguyen, Q., & T. Bernauer. (2019). Does trade liberalization lead to environmental burden shifting in the global economy? Ecological Economics, 163, 98-112.
• Koliev, F., Duit, A., & B. Park. (2024). The impact of INGO climate shaming on national laws. International Interactions, 50(1), 94-120.
• Koremenos, B., Lipson, C., & D. Snidal. (2001). The rational design of international institutions. International organization, 55(4), 761-799.
• Koubi, V., Mohrenberg, S., & T. Bernauer. (2020). Ratification of multilateral environmental agreements: Civil society access to international institutions. Journal of Civil Society, 16(4), 351-371.
• Laurens, N. (2024). A springboard or a safeguard? The repercussions of affinity on environmental treaties’ adaptability. Earth System Governance, 21, 100215.
• Laurens, N., & J. F. Morin. (2019). Negotiating environmental protection in trade agreements: A regime shift or a tactical linkage? International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 19(6), 533-556.
• Laurens, N., Hollway, J., & J. F. Morin. (2023). Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation. International Studies Quarterly, 67(3), sqad049.
• Leinaweaver, J. (2012). Autocratic ratification: Environmental cooperation to prolong survival. Social Science Research Network.
• Leinaweaver, J. (2012). Environmental treaty ratification: Treaty design, domestic politics and international incentives. Social Science Research Network.
• Leinaweaver, J. (2012). The state executive's signature of environmental treaties: Ego and the international community. Social Science Research Network.
• Livas, S. M., & C. T.  Butts. (2025). Birds of a feather sign together: Co-ratification patterns in the International environmental agreement network. Social Networks, 82, 182-200.
• Maglia, C., & E. Wilson Rowe. (2023). Ecosystems and ordering: exploring the extent and diversity of ecosystem governance. Global Studies Quarterly, 3(2), ksad028.
• Miles, E. L., et al. (2002). Environmental regime effectiveness: Confronting theory with evidence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Millimet, D. L., & J. Roy. (2015). Multilateral environmental agreements and the WTO. Economics Letters, 134, 20-23.
• Mitchell, R. B.  (2003). International environmental agreements: A survey of their features, formation, and effects. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 28(1), 429-461.
• Mitchell, R. B. (2005). Flexibility, compliance and norm development in the climate regime In O. S. Stokke, J. Hovi, & G. Ulfstein (Eds.), Implementing the Climate Regime: International Compliance (pp. 65-83). Earthscan Press.
• Mitchell, R. B. (2006). Problem structure, institutional design, and the relative effectiveness of international environmental agreements . Global Environmental Politics, 6(3), 72-89.
• Mitchell, R. B. (2007). Compliance theory: Compliance, effectiveness, and behavior change in international environmental law. In J. Brunee, D. Bodansky, & E. Hey (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (pp. 893-921). Oxford University Press.
• Mitchell, R. B. (2009). The influence of international institutions: Institutional design, compliance, effectiveness, and endogeneity. In H. V. Milner (Ed.), Power, Interdependence and Non-state Actors in World Politics: Research Frontiers (pp. 66-83). Princeton University Press.
• Mitchell, R. B., & P. Keilbach. (2001). Situation structure and institutional design: Reciprocity, coercion, and exchange. International Organization, 55(4), 891-917.
• Mitchell, R. B., Clark, W. C., & D. W. Cash. (2006). Information and Influence. In R. B. Mitchell, W. C. Clark, D. W. Cash, & N. M. Dickson (Eds.), Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence (pp. 307-338). MIT Press.
• Mitchell, R. B., Andonova, L. B., Axelrod, M., Balsiger, J., Bernauer, T., Green, J. F., Hollway, J., Kim, R. E., & J. F. Morin. (2020). What we know (and could know) about international environmental agreements. Global Environmental Politics, 20(1), 103-121.  See online appendix at: https://www.iea.ulaval.ca/about/publications/online-appendix-what-we-know-and-could-know-about-international-environmental-agreements.
• Mohrenberg, S., Koubi, V., & T. Bernauer. (2019). Effects of funding mechanisms on participation in multilateral environmental agreements. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 19, 1-18.
• Morin, J. F., & C. Blouin. (2019). How environmental treaties contribute to global health governance. Globalization and Health, 15, 1-8.
• Morin, J. F., Blümer, D., Brandi, C., & A. Berger. (2019). Kick-starting diffusion: Explaining the varying frequency of PTAs’ environmental clauses by their initial conditions. The World Economy, 42(9), 2602-2628.
• Morin, J. F., Orsini, A., & S. Jinnah. (2020). Global environmental politics: Understanding the governance of the Earth. Oxford University Press.
• Morin, J. F., Tremblay-Auger, B., & C. Peacock. (2022). Design trade-offs under power asymmetry: COPs and flexibility clauses. Global Environmental Politics, 22(1), 19-43.
• Morin, J. F., Fournier, V., & S. Paquin. (2022). The federated entities in environmental treaties dataset: Questioning conventional wisdom on green paradiplomacy. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 55(1), 226-241.
• Morin, J. F., Allan, J., & S. Jinnah. (2024). The survival of the weakest: The echo of the rio summit principles in environmental treaties. Environmental Politics, 33(3), 486-507.
• Morin, J. F., Brandi, C., & J. Schwab. (2024). Environmental agreements as clubs: Evidence from a new dataset of trade provisions. The Review of International Organizations, 19(1), 33-62.
• Morin, J. F., Laurens, N., Brandi, C., & J. Schwab. (2025). Using trade provisions to make environmental agreements more dynamic. International Studies Quarterly, 69(1), sqaf010.
• Muñoz, M., Thrasher, R., & A. Najam. (2009). Measuring the negotiation burden of multilateral environmental agreements. Global Environmental Politics, 9(4), 1-13.
• Neumayer, E. (2002). Do democracies exhibit stronger international environmental commitment? Journal of peace research, 39(2), 139-164.
• Nils, S. (2011). International environmental governance for the 21st century: Challenges, reform process and options for action on the way to Rio 2012 (No. RP 1/2011). SWP Research Paper.
• OECD. 2010. Harnessing freedom of investment for green growth.
• Ovodenko, A. (2015). Regional water cooperation creating incentives for integrated management. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(6), 1071-1098.
• Ovodenko, A. (2016). Governing oligopolies: Global regimes and market structure. Global Environmental Politics, 16(3), 106-126.
• Ovodenko, A. (2017). Regulating the polluters: Markets and Strategies for Protecting the Global Environment. Oxford University Press.
• Perrin, S., & T. Bernauer. (2010). International regime formation revisited: explaining ratification behavior with respect to long range transboundary air pollution agreements in Europe. European Union Politics, 11(3), 405-426.
• Perrings, C., Hechter, M., & R. Mamada. (2021). National polarization and international agreements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(50), e2102145118.
• Polo-Villanueva, F. D., Tavares, A. A. D. O., Giessen, L., & S. L. Burns. (2025). Transnational forest governance arrangements dataset (TFGA-dataset). Annals of Forest Science, 82(1), 1-7.
• Prakash, A., & M. Potoski. (2014). Global private regimes, domestic public law: ISO 14001 and pollution reduction. Comparative Political Studies, 47(3), 369-394.
• Ringquist, E., & T. Kostadinova. (2005). Assessing the effectiveness of international environmental agreements: The case of the 1985 Helsinki Protocol. American Journal of Political Science, 49(1), 86-102.
• Roberts, J. T., Parks, B. C., & A. A. Vásquez. (2004). Who ratifies environmental treaties and why? Institutionalism, structuralism and participation by 192 nations in 22 treaties. Global Environmental Politics, 4(3), 22-64.
• Rothman, S. B. (2007). Understanding data quality through reliability: A comparison of data reliability assessment in three international relations datasets. International Studies Review, 9(3), 437-456.
• Russo, A., & Miessi Sanches, F. A. (2024). Bandwagon effects in international environmental agreements. Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics Research Paper Series, (19). Social Science Research Network.
• Siegfried, T., & T. Bernauer. (2007). Estimating the performance of international regulatory regimes: Methodology and empirical application to international water management in the Naryn/Syr Darya basin. Water Resources Research, 43(11).
• Spilker, G., & V. Koubi. (2016). The effects of treaty legality and domestic institutional hurdles on environmental treaty ratification. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 16, 223-238.
• Stadtfeld, C., Hollway, J., & P. Block. (2017). Dynamic network actor models: investigating coordination ties through time. Sociological Methodology 47(1): 1-40.
• Strongin, K., Lancaster, A. M. S., Polidoro, B., Aguilar-Perera, A., Gerber, L., Díaz, P. G., et al. (2022). A proposal framework for a tri-national agreement on biological conservation in the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem. Marine Policy, 139, 105041.
• Szira, Z., Alghamdi, H., Varga, E., & K. Bárdos. (2021). Legal Tools in International Environmental Law. EU agrarian Law, 10(2), 13-20.
• Tamate, J. M. M. M. (2013). Balancing the scales: The experience of the parties to the nauru agreement. Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, [PhD thesis]. University of Wollongong, Australia.
• Tiller, R., Nyman, E., Dankel, D., & Y. Liu. (2019). Resilience to exogenous shocks in environmental management regimes in the Arctic–lessons learned from survivors. The Polar Journal, 9(1), 133-153.
• Tiller, R., Booth, A. M., & E. Cowan. (2022). Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics. Environmental Science & Policy, 134, 67-74.
• United Nations Environment Programme. (2008). International environmental governance and United Nations reform (Ministerial Background Document)
• United Nations Environment Programme. (2010). UNEP Year Book 2010: New science and developments in our changing environment Release Date: 23rd February 2010, page 4.
• Von Stein, J. (2005). Do treaties constrain or screen? Selection bias and treaty compliance. American Political Science Review, 99(4), 611-622.
• Vourvoulia, M., & A. Kampas. (2024). Are democratic regime and the magnitude of the informal economy robust determinants of human impacts on the environment? An extreme bounds analysis. Economics & Politics, 36(1), 611-629.
• Young, O. R. (2002). The institutional dimensions of environmental change: Fit, interplay, and scale. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.