The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University offers three PhD positions within the NWO VIDI project No carrots, no sticks: How do peer reviews among states acquire authority in global governance?.
Tasks
The successful candidates will pursue a PhD project within the broad subject area of peer reviews among states in international organizations. At the same time, they will contribute to the research project “No carrots, no sticks: How do peer reviews among states acquire authority in global governance?” This project researches the conditions under which the recommendations that states make to each other through peer reviews develop authority despite the lack of incentives or enforcement mechanisms. The project will look at three different international organizations (EU; OECD; United Nations family) and three policy areas (the fight against corruption; environmental and energy policy; economic policies).
The three PhD candidates will each work primarily in one of the three policy areas covered by the project (the fight against corruption; environmental and energy policy; economic policies). They are invited to develop own research interests within the thematic framework of the project for the purpose of their PhD theses. They are expected to contribute to the general project in the form of fieldwork and single-authored or co-authored publications. The PhD candidates will be based at Maastricht University.
They will be enrolled in one of the Netherlands Graduate Research Schools as well as in the graduate school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. Their PhD projects will be supervised by Dr. Thomas Conzelmann (Maastricht University) and one or two other professors from Maastricht University. The appointment of candidates will be in the amount of 0,75 fte for four years or 1,0 fte for three years.
PhD in Global Governance
