Dr. Thomas Gehring is Professor of International Politics. His research focuses on issues of governance beyond the nation state; the emergence, development and operation of international institutions; as well as policy-making within the European Union. Research has been published inter alia in such journals as European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Global Environmental Politics and European Journal of Political Research.  For information on research activities of the Chair of International Relations, look here.

Articles and Book Chapters

Gehring T. and Oberthür S. (eds.) (2006). Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance. Synergy and Conflict among International and EU Policies. Cambridge, MA: MIT-Press.

Gehring T. (2002). Die Europäische Union als komplexe internationale Organisation: Wie durch Kommunikation und Entscheidung soziale Ordnung entsteht. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Gehring T., Kerler M., Krapohl S. and Stefanova S. (2005). Rationalität durch Verfahren: Europäische Arzneimittelzulassung und Normung technischer Güter. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Gehring T. (2009). ‘Internationale Organisationen als Organisationen: Was die Organisationsforschung von der Systemtheorie lernen kann.’ In: Dingwerth K., Kerwer D. and Nölke A. (eds.), Die Organisierte Welt: Internationale Beziehungen und Organisationsforschung. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 59-94.

Gehring T. and Plocher I. (2009). ‘Making an Administrative Trustee Agent Accountable: Reason-based Decision-making within the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism,’ International Studies Quartely 53(3), pp. 667-690.

Gehring T. and Oberthür S. (2009). ‘The Causal Mechanisms of Interaction between International Institutions,’ European Journal of International Relations 15(1), pp. 125-156.

Gehring T. and Kerler M. (2008). ‘Institutional Stimulation of Deliberative Decisions-Making: Division of Labour, Deliberative Legitimacy and Technical Regulation in the European Single Market,’ Journal of Common Market Studies 46(5), pp. 1001-1023.

Gehring T. and Krapohl S. (2007). ‘Supranational Regulatory Agencies between Independence and Control: The EMEA and the Authorization of Pharmaceuticals in the European Single Market,’ Journal of European Public Policy 14(2), pp. 208-226.

Gehring T. and Oberthür S. (2006). ‘Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance. The case of Cartagena Protocol and the World trade Organization,’ Global Environmental Politics 6(2), pp. 1-31. (Reprint in: Michel, R. (ed.) (2008). International Environmental Politics Vol. III. Los Angeles: Sage.)

Gehring, T. (2004). ‘The Consequences of Delegation to Independent Agencies. Separation of Powers, Discursive Governance and the Regulation of Telecommunications in Germany,’ European Journal of Political Research 43(4), pp. 677-698.