• Antje Vetterlein [de]

    Antje Vetterlein ist Professorin für Global Governance. Sie erhielt ihren PhD in Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften vom Europäischen Hochschulinstitut in Florenz und arbeitete danach zunächst als Lecturer an den Universitäten Oxford und Essex und dann als Assistent und später Associate Professor am Department of Business and Politics an der Copenhagen Business School. Sie forscht in den Bereichen Internationale Beziehungen und internationale politische Ökonomie. Drei Forschungsschwerpunkte charakterisieren ihre Arbeit: Internationale Organisationen und deren Rolle in der Weltpolitik, Normenforschung in Global Governance, und Verantwortungspraktiken globaler Akteure. Ein wesentlicher Teil ihrer Arbeiten beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse des Wandels von Policy Normen und globalen Standards. Es geht um die Frage, wie internationale politische Akteure Werte und Ideen aufnehmen und in Policy Normen übersetzen. Zu den wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen zählen "Owning Development: Creating Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank" (Cambridge University Press, zusammen mit Susan Park), “The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics” (Cambridge University Press, mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson), “The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations” (mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson), and “The Elgar Companion to the World Bank” (mit Tobias Schmidtke) sowie Artikel in Zeitschriften wie International Theory, Global Governance, New Political Economy, European Political Science Review, Business & Politics, Journal of International Relations and Development oder Politische Vierteljahresschrift. Antje Vetterlein war Fulbright Fellow, Research Fellow am Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences der Stanford University, am Hansewissenschaftskolleg sowie am Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies der Harvard University. Außerdem war sie Gastwissenschaftlerin an der Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, der Copenhagen Business School, sowie am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).

  • Forschungsschwerpunkte

    • Internationale Organisationen and transnationale ‘policy communities’
    • Policy Normen, Standards und Regulierungen in Global Governance
    • Verantwortungspraktiken globaler Akteure

  • Lehre

    • Global Governance: Die Rolle von Internationalen Organisationen in der Weltpolitik
    • International Organizations and Development
    • Responsibility in World Politics
    • Qualitative Methoden der Sozialforschung
    • Kolloquium für Abschlussarbeiten

  • Publikationen

    Buch

    • 2002: Gewerkschaften ohne Vollbeschäftigung, Westdeutscher Verlag. (mit Peter Bleses)

    Herausgeberbände

    Zeitschriftenartikel

    • 2025: Contextualizing Norms: International Organizations and the Creation of Resilient Policy Norms, Journal of International Relations and Development, online first/open access. (mit Tobias Schmidtke)

    • 2024: Conceptualizing Responsibility in World Politics, International Theory 16(1): 26-49. (mit Mitja Sienknecht)

    • 2023: Introduction: Mapping the Research Field on the Democracy–Sustainability Nexus, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 64: 695-714. (mit Thomas Dietz, Doris Fuchs, Armin Schäfer)

    • 2020: Wie verhalten sich Wissenschaft und Politik zueinander?: Politik muss von der Politik gemacht werden, WZB Mitteilungen 169: 53. (mit Mitja Sienknecht)
    • 2020: The problem of non-compliance: knowledge gaps and moments of contestation in global governance, Journal of International Relations and Development 23(3): 636-656. (mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson und Antje Wiener)
    • 2018: Accounting for Knowledge in Policies of Responsibility in Global Governance: The Sustainable Normativity Hypotheses, Journal of International Relations and Development, onlinefirst. (mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson und Antje Wiener)
    • 2018: Responsibility Is More Than Accountability: The Conditions of Moral Agency of Corporate Social Responsibility, Contemporary Politics 24(5): 545-567.
    • 2018: Regulatory Governance: Rules, Resistance and Responsibility, Contemporary Politics 24(5): 497-506. (mit Poul Fritz Kjaer)
    • 2017: CSR Revisited: About Possibilities and Limits of Corporate Responsibility’, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 52: 384-409.
    • 2015: Paradigm Maintenance: The IMF and Social Policies After the Financial Crisis, Forum on Global Social Policy After the Financial Crisis, Global Social Policy 15(1).
    • 2015: Organisationspersönlichkeit und die Bedingungen von Politikwandel in internationalen Organisationen, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Special Issue. (eds. Conceicao-Heldt, E.; M. Koch and A. Liese)
    • 2014: International Organizations and Organizational Fields: Explaining Policy Change in the IMF, European Political Sciences Review 6(1): 143-165. (mit Manuela Moschella)
    • 2013: Gemeinschaft Revisited: Die sozialen Grundlagen internationaler Ordnung, Leviathan, Sonderband 28 (ed. Stephan Stetter): 78-103. (mit Antje Wiener)
    • 2012: Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty, New Political Economy 17(1): 35-58.
    • 2010: Theorizing Transnational Corporations as Social Actors: An Analysis of Corporate Motivations, Business and Politics 12(1): 1-37. (mit Dana Brown and Anne Roemer-Mahler)
    • 2009: Everyday Post-Socialism, in: Journal of International Relations and Development 12(3): 349-54. (mit Stephen Deets and Sherrill Stroschein)
    • 2008: Rethinking Global Governance: Market Actors and Accountability (Ripensando la global governance: attori economici e responsibilità sociale), in: La Revista delle Politiche Sociali 1: 325-357. (mit Martin Seeleib-Kaiser)
    • 2007: Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and the Role of Social Policies. The Evolution of the World Bank’s Social Development Approach, in: Global Governance 13: 513-533.
    • 2003: Die Gewerkschaften in der Zerreissprobe, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Oktober. (mit Peter Bleses)

    Buchkapitel

    • 2026: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in: Handbook of International Organizations. Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights, hrsgeg. von Freistein, Katja, Julia Leininger und Silke Weinlich. De Gruyter.

    • 2024: The World Bank: A Changing Organization in a Changing World, in: The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, hsrg. von Vetterlein, Antje und Tobias Schmidtke, Edward Elgar:  2-20. (mit Tobias Schmidtke)

    • 2024: Constructivism, Norms, and the World Bank, in: The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, hsrg. von Vetterlein, Antje und Tobias Schmidtke, Edward Elgar:  96-106. (mit Susan Park)

    • 2024: Responsibility Avoidance in the World Bank’s Approach to End Poverty, in: The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, hsrg. von Vetterlein, Antje und Tobias Schmidtke, Edward Elgar:  286-297.

    • 2022: Responsibility in International Relations Theory and Practice: Introducing the Handbook, in: The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations, hrsgeg. von Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes und Antje Vetterlein, Routledge: 1-27. (mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson)
    • 2020: The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics, in: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Antje Vetterlein. (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 3-32. (mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson)
    • 2020: Responsibility and Virtue Ethics: How to Tackle Ethical Dilemmas in World Politics?, in: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Antje Vetterlein. (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 233-238. (mit Hannes Hansen-Magnusson)
    • 2016: Self-Reinforcing and Reactive Path-Dependency: Tracing the IMF’s Path of Policy Change, in: Rixen, Thomas, Lora Viola und Michael Zuern (eds.) Historical Institutionalism and International Relations (with Manuela Moschella), Oxford University Press: 143-164.
    • 2015: Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking: The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crises, in: McBride, Stephen, Mahon, Rianne und Boychuk, G. W. (eds.) After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crises, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press: 87-104.
    • 2014: Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty, in: Broome, Andre und Leonard Seabrooke (eds.) Seeing Like an International Organization, Routledge: 35-58.
    • 2014: The Discursive Power of International Organizations: Social Policy Language and Concepts in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in: Beland, Daniel and Klaus Petersen (eds.) Analyzing Social Policy Language and Concepts: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives , Policy Press: 101-125.
    • 2014: A Changing Organisation: The World Bank’s Development Strategy From the 1970s Until Today – A Case Study, in: Engholm, Liv, Philosophy of Science: Perspectives on Organisations and Society , Hans Reitzels Forlag: 38-49.
    • 2014: Et casestudie om Verdensbanken: En organisation i forandring – Verdensbankens udviklingsstrategi fra 1970’erne til 2000’erne, in: Engholm, Liv, Videnskabsteorie: Perspektiver på Organisationer og Samfund, Hans Reitzels Forlag: 38-50.
    • 2013: The Role of the World Bank and the IMF in Poverty Reduction: Limits of Policy Change, in: R. Surender, R. Walker, R. Van Niekerk (Hrsg.) Social Policy in a Developing World: Comparative Developments and Debates, Edward Elgar: 37-57.
    • 2010: Introduction: Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, in: Owning Development, CUP: 1-26. (mit Susan Park)
    • 2010: Lacking Ownership: The IMF and its Engagement with Social Development as a Global Policy Norm, in: Owning Development, CUP: 93-113.
    • 2010: Conclusion: The BWIs as Global Policy Norm Advocates and the Future of International Development, in: Owning Development, CUP: 225-248. (mit Susan Park)
    • 2010: Doing Well by Doing Good – A Sufficient Accountability Mechanism for MNCs? (Gode gerninger betaler sig… - men er den internationale regulering af virksomheder tilstrækkelig?), in: Kaspersen, Lars Bo; Joachim Lund and Helby Petersen, Ole (eds.) Offentligt Eller Privat?: Historiske og Aktuelle Udfordringer I Politik og Økonomi, Djøf: 69-85. (mit Stine Jessen Haakonsson)
    • 2010: Personality and Uncertainty in International Economic Organisations (Personlighed og usikkerhed i internationale økonomiske organisationer), in: Kaspersen, Lars Bo; Joachim Lund and Helby Petersen, Ole (eds.) Offentligt Eller Privat?: Historiske og Aktuelle Udfordringer I Politik og Økonomi, Djøf: 301-315. (mit Leonard Seabrooke)
    • 2006: Change in International Organizations: Innovation or Adaptation? A Comparison of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in: Stone, Diane; Christopher Wright (eds.): The World Bank and Governance, Routledge CSGR Series in Globalisation and Regionalisation. Routledge: London: 125-144.

    Wissenstransfer

    • 2021: Lunchtalk-Reihe "Rasender Stillstand" Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema ”Wer übernimmt Verantwortung? Ich, Du oder wir alle?”. Organisiert von ’Wissenschaft im Dialog’, gemeinsam mit dem Bucerius Lab der ZEIT-Stiftung und dem Holtzbrinck-Forum Berlin, 3. November 2021
    • 2020: Mitja Sienknecht und Antje Vetterlein: Wissenschaftliche Wahrheit und politische Verantwortung, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3.6.2020, S. 13

  • Antje Vetterlein [en]

    Antje Vetterlein is professor of global governance. She studied sociology and economics at Leipzig University and received an MA in Sociology from Boston College. She earned her PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Before joining the Department of Political Science at Münster University, she was assistant and associate professor in the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School, lecturer at the University of Oxford and the University of Essex. She studies international organizations and their role in world politics, norms in global governance and responsibility practices of global actors. Her work often draws upon sociological approaches and methodology to understand the micro-foundations of political processes and formations on a macro scale. In these fields, she has published articles as well as books, e.g., Owning Development: Creating Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank (Cambridge University Press, with Susan Park), The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson), The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson), and The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (with Tobias Schmidtke). Her work is also published in journals such as International Theory, Global Governance, New Political Economy, European Political Science Review, Business & Politics, Journal of International Relations and Development or Politische Vierteljahresschrift. Antje Vetterlein was Fulbright Fellow, Research Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, at Hansewissenschaftskolleg as well as in the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She was furthermore guest researcher at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, at Copenhagen Business School, and in the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

  • Research interests

    • International organizations and transnational policy communities
    • Policy norms, standards and regulations in global governance
    • Responsibility practices of global actors

  • Teaching

    • Global Governance: The Role of International Organizations in World Politics

    • International Organizations and Development

    • Responsibility in World Politics

    • Qualitativ Social Science Research Methods

    • Colloquium for Master Theses

  • Publications

    Book

    • 2002: Gewerkschaften ohne Vollbeschäftigung, Westdeutscher Verlag. (with Peter Bleses)

    Edited Volumes

    Journal Articles

    • 2025: Contextualizing Norms: International Organizations and the Creation of Resilient Policy Norms, Journal of International Relations and Development, online first/open access. (with Tobias Schmidtke)

    • 2024: Conceptualizing Responsibility in World Politics, International Theory 16(1): 26-49. (with Mitja Sienknecht)

    • 2023: Introduction: Mapping the Research Field on the Democracy–Sustainability Nexus, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 64:695-714. (with Thomas Dietz, Doris Fuchs and Armin Schäfer)

    • 2020: Wie verhalten sich Wissenschaft und Politik zueinander?: Politik muss von der Politik gemacht werden, WZB Mitteilungen 169: 53. (with Mitja Sienknecht)
    • 2020: The problem of non-compliance: knowledge gaps and moments of contestation in global governance, Journal of International Relations and Development 23(3): 636-656. (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson and Antje Wiener)
    • 2018: Accounting for Knowledge in Policies of Responsibility in Global Governance: The Sustainable Normativity Hypotheses, Journal of International Relations and Development, onlinefirst. (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson and Antje Wiener)
    • 2018: Responsibility Is More Than Accountability: The Conditions of Moral Agency of Corporate Social Responsibility, Contemporary Politics 24(5): 545-567.
    • 2018: Regulatory Governance: Rules, Resistance and Responsibility, Contemporary Politics 24(5): 497-506. (with Poul Fritz Kjaer)
    • 2017: CSR Revisited: About Possibilities and Limits of Corporate Responsibility’, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 52: 384-409.
    • 2015: Paradigm Maintenance: The IMF and Social Policies After the Financial Crisis, Forum on Global Social Policy After the Financial Crisis, Global Social Policy 15(1).
    • 2015: Organisationspersönlichkeit und die Bedingungen von Politikwandel in internationalen Organisationen, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Special Issue. (eds. Conceicao-Heldt, E.; M. Koch and A. Liese)
    • 2014: International Organizations and Organizational Fields: Explaining Policy Change in the IMF, European Political Sciences Review 6(1): 143-165. (with Manuela Moschella)
    • 2013: Gemeinschaft Revisited: Die sozialen Grundlagen internationaler Ordnung, Leviathan, Sonderband 28 (ed. Stephan Stetter): 78-103. (with Antje Wiener)
    • 2012: Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty, New Political Economy 17(1): 35-58.
    • 2010: Theorizing Transnational Corporations as Social Actors: An Analysis of Corporate Motivations, Business and Politics 12(1): 1-37. (with Dana Brown and Anne Roemer-Mahler)
    • 2009: Everyday Post-Socialism, in: Journal of International Relations and Development 12(3): 349-54. (with Stephen Deets and Sherrill Stroschein)
    • 2008: Rethinking Global Governance: Market Actors and Accountability (Ripensando la global governance: attori economici e responsibilità sociale), in: La Revista delle Politiche Sociali 1: 325-357. (with Martin Seeleib-Kaiser)
    • 2007: Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and the Role of Social Policies. The Evolution of the World Bank’s Social Development Approach, in: Global Governance 13: 513-533.
    • 2003: Die Gewerkschaften in der Zerreissprobe, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Oktober. (with Peter Bleses)

    Book Chapters

    • 2026: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in: Freistein, Katja, Julia Leininger and Silke Weinlich (eds.) Handbook of International Organizations. Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights, Oldenbourg: De Gruyter.

    • 2024: The World Bank: The World Bank: A Changing Organization in a Changing World, in: Vetterlein, Antje und Tobias Schmidtke (eds.) The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, Edward Elgar: 2-20. (with Tobias Schmidtke)

    • 2024: Constructivism, Norms, and the World Bank, in: Vetterlein, Antje und Tobias Schmidtke (eds.) The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, Edward Elgar:  96-106. (with Susan Park)

    • 2024: Responsibility Avoidance in the World Bank’s Approach to End Poverty, in: Vetterlein, Antje und Tobias Schmidtke (eds.) The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, Edward Elgar: 286-297.

    • 2022: Responsibility in International Relations Theory and Practice: Introducing the Handbook, in: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Antje Vetterlein (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations, Abingdon: Routledge: 1-27. (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson)

    • 2020: The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics, in: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Antje Vetterlein. (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 3-32. (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson)
    • 2020: Responsibility and Virtue Ethics: How to Tackle Ethical Dilemmas in World Politics?, in: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Antje Vetterlein. (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 233-238. (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson)
    • 2016: Self-Reinforcing and Reactive Path-Dependency: Tracing the IMF’s Path of Policy Change, in: Rixen, Thomas, Lora Viola und Michael Zuern (eds.) Historical Institutionalism and International Relations (with Manuela Moschella), Oxford University Press: 143-164.
    • 2015: Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking: The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crises, in: McBride, Stephen, Mahon, Rianne und Boychuk, G. W. (eds.) After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crises, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press: 87-104.
    • 2014: Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty, in: Broome, Andre und Leonard Seabrooke (eds.) Seeing Like an International Organization, Routledge: 35-58.
    • 2014: The Discursive Power of International Organizations: Social Policy Language and Concepts in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in: Beland, Daniel and Klaus Petersen (eds.) Analyzing Social Policy Language and Concepts: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives , Policy Press: 101-125.
    • 2014: A Changing Organisation: The World Bank’s Development Strategy From the 1970s Until Today – A Case Study, in: Engholm, Liv, Philosophy of Science: Perspectives on Organisations and Society , Hans Reitzels Forlag: 38-49.
    • 2014: Et casestudie om Verdensbanken: En organisation i forandring – Verdensbankens udviklingsstrategi fra 1970’erne til 2000’erne, in: Engholm, Liv, Videnskabsteorie: Perspektiver på Organisationer og Samfund, Hans Reitzels Forlag: 38-50.
    • 2013: The Role of the World Bank and the IMF in Poverty Reduction: Limits of Policy Change, in: R. Surender, R. Walker, R. Van Niekerk (Hrsg.) Social Policy in a Developing World: Comparative Developments and Debates, Edward Elgar: 37-57.
    • 2010: Introduction: Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank, in: Owning Development, CUP: 1-26. (with Susan Park)
    • 2010: Lacking Ownership: The IMF and its Engagement with Social Development as a Global Policy Norm, in: Owning Development, CUP: 93-113.
    • 2010: Conclusion: The BWIs as Global Policy Norm Advocates and the Future of International Development, in: Owning Development, CUP: 225-248. (with Susan Park)
    • 2010: Doing Well by Doing Good – A Sufficient Accountability Mechanism for MNCs? (Gode gerninger betaler sig… - men er den internationale regulering af virksomheder tilstrækkelig?), in: Kaspersen, Lars Bo; Joachim Lund and Helby Petersen, Ole (eds.) Offentligt Eller Privat?: Historiske og Aktuelle Udfordringer I Politik og Økonomi, Djøf: 69-85. (with Stine Jessen Haakonsson)
    • 2010: Personality and Uncertainty in International Economic Organisations (Personlighed og usikkerhed i internationale økonomiske organisationer), in: Kaspersen, Lars Bo; Joachim Lund and Helby Petersen, Ole (eds.) Offentligt Eller Privat?: Historiske og Aktuelle Udfordringer I Politik og Økonomi, Djøf: 301-315. (with Leonard Seabrooke)
    • 2006: Change in International Organizations: Innovation or Adaptation? A Comparison of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in: Stone, Diane; Christopher Wright (eds.): The World Bank and Governance, Routledge CSGR Series in Globalisation and Regionalisation. Routledge: London: 125-144.

    Dissemination

    • 2021: Lunchtalk-Series "Rasender Stillstand" Podium discussion „Who takes on responsibility? You, myself, or we all?”. Organized by ’Wissenschaft im Dialog’, together with the Bucerius Lab/ZEIT-Stiftung and the Holtzbrinck-Forum Berlin, November 3rd, 2021
    • 2020: Mitja Sienknecht and Antje Vetterlein: Wissenschaftliche Wahrheit und politische Verantwortung, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June, 3rd, 2020, p. 13