Marking United Nations Day: New Research on Democratic Erosion by IPSA Past President Marianne Kneuer

United Nations Day, observed on 24 October, marks the anniversary of the UN Charter’s entry into force in 1945. In 2020, IPSA presented the conference titled The UN at 75: Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

Building on the contributions made during the conference, IPSA published its first open-access book titled Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism (Brill, 2023). Edited by Kim Fontaine-Skronski, IPSA Executive Director, Valériane Thool, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sherbrooke, and Norbert Eschborn, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Canada), the volume features original scholarly articles and policy notes from practitioners exploring the challenges and prospects of multilateralism.

Among the book's contributors was IPSA Past President Marianne Kneuer. Drawing on her contribution to the volume, Prof. Kneuer published a subsequent article in the Taylor & Francis journal Democratization, titled Democratic Erosion and its International Implications: How Governments in Eroding Democracies Shift their Foreign Policy Behaviour. In her paper, Prof. Kneuer brings a keen eye to bear on the mechanisms by which governments in eroding democracies translate their domestic transformative agenda into international politics.