Tobias Lenz Author

Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her publications include Community, Scale, and Regional Governance (with Gary Marks, OUP, 2016), Measuring Regional Authority (with Gary MArks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz, and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, OUP, 2016), and The Rise of Regional Authority (with Gary Marks, Routledge, 2010). Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. His publications include Community, Scale, and Regional Governance (with Gary Marks, OUP, 2016),Measuring Regional Authority (with Gary MArks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz, and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, OUP, 2016), and European Integration and Political Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Tobias Lenz is Assistant Professor at the University of Goettingen, Germany, and the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg. His research interests include international organizations, comparative regionalism, diffusion, and International Relations theory. He has published several articles in leading journals and is working on a book manuscript on the EU's influence on the institutional design of regional organizations. Jeanine Bezuijen currently works as a statistician for the Scottish Government in Edinburgh. She holds a PhD in political science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2015). Besir Ceka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. His research and teaching interests lay in the fields of public opinion, political behaviour, post-communist politics, European integration, and international organizations. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, European Union Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy and Foreign Affairs. Svet Derderyan is a Lecturer in Political Science at Colorado University Boulder. His research interests lie in the field of international organizations, political corruption, democratization, Europeanization, and post-communist studies.