Thomas Risse is professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the co-director of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' and has been coordinator of the Research Center 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His publications include Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations (Routledge, 2016), A Community of Europeans? (Cornell University Press, 2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (with Tanja A. Borzel, OUP, 2016).
Tanja A. Börzel is professor of Political Science and European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and is the director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 'Europe and its Citizens'. She coordinates the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' together with Thomas Risse, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her current research focuses on policies and governance, comparative regionalism, and compliance in the European Union. Her publications include Environmental Leaders and Laggards in Europe (Ashgate, 2003), and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (with Thomas Risse, OUP, 2016).
Anke Draude is a postdoctoral research associate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood'. Her research focuses on recent interdisciplinary developments in the study of global norm diffusion and translation, governance interventions, and local agency.