Charles Roger
Ramón y Cajal Associate Professor
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Biography
Charles Roger is an Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). His research explores the transformations occurring in our system of global governance and how these are reshaping our ability to address cross-border problems. Substantively, it has been concerned with the dynamics of formal, informal, and transnational institutions operating in the fields of climate change, international trade, global finance, and antitrust.
Charles is the author of The Origins of Informality: Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and Why It Matters (Oxford University Press, 2020) and a co-author of Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which was named runner-up for the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award in 2015. His research has also been published in a range of academic journals, including Global Environmental Politics, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Review of International Organisations.
In addition to being a co-convenor of the Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance, Charles is a co-editor (with Prof. Maryam Deloffre) of the Frontiers of Global Governance book series published by McGill-Queens University Press. Finally, he has also worked with the United Nations and other organizations in various roles, including as a member of the UN High-Level Expert Group on Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development and as a contributing author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Background and education
- (2016) PhD, University of British Columbia
- (2008) MSc, London School of Economics
- (2007) BA, Concordia University
Awards
- 2022. Ramón y Cajal Fellowship
- 2019. Beatriu de Pinós Fellowship
- 2014. Runner-up, Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, International Studies Association
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Research
Research interests
- Global governance
- International Organizations
- International Law
- Global Environmental Politics
- International Political Economy
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
Selected publications
- 2023.Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design.Political Studies,71:914-934Link
- 2023.The New Terrain of Global Governance: Mapping Membership in Informal International Organizations.Journal of Conflict Resolution,67:1248-1269Link
- 2023.Differentiation in Environmental Treaty Making: Measuring Provisions and How They Reshape the Depth–Participation Dilemma.Global Environmental Politics,23:117–132Link
- 2023.The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions.International Politics,Link
- 2023.Differentiation in Environmental Treatymaking: Measuring Provisions and How They Reshape the Depth-Participation Dilemma.Global Environmental Politics,23(1)Link
- 2023.The New Terrain of Global Governance: Mapping Membership in Informal International Organizations.Journal of Conflict Resolution,Link
- 2022.Global Governance Research. Exploring Patterns of Growth, Diversity, and Inclusion.Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations,28(4):486-508Link
- 2022.The coral reefs of global governance: how formal IOs make informality work.Journal of European Integration,44:5:657-675. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2068540Link
- 2021.Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design.Political Studies,Link
- 2021.Analyzing International Organizations: How the Concepts We Use Affect the Answers We Get.Review of International Organizations,Link