Conference Papers & Workshops

  • 2020 - Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference, Brighton, UK. Paper: (co-authored with Michael Mason and Lena Partzsch) Proxy Accountability for Natural Resource Extraction in Transitional States

  • 2020 - Permanent Seminar Series, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. Paper: The World Bank, Bureaucratic Rationality and the Promise of Environmental Partnerships.

  • 2020 - Barcelona Workshop in Global Governance, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona, Spain.  Paper:  Who Orchestrates? The World Bank and its Partners in Biodiversity Conservation.

  • 2019 - Environmental Disasters 2019 Symposium.  Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney.  Paper:  Slow Violence and Resilience.

  • 2019 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.  Paper: Governing the Dark Side of Renewable Energy.

  • 2018 - Annual Conference on Earth System Governance, Utrecht University, Netherlands.  Paper: Populism or Petrostate? The Afterlives of Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative.

  • 2018 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA.  Paper: Extracting Local Costs for Global Environmental Benefits.

  • 2017 - Annual Conference on Earth System Governance, University of Lund, Sweden.  Paper: Fracking Argentina,

  • 2015 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA.  Papers: “Conceptualizing Accountability in Global Environmental Governance:  Can Multiple Priorities Coexist?” and “The Judge has the Last Word:  The Judicialization of Environmental Governance and the Decline of Democratic Accountability in Argentina.”

  • 2014 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.  Paper: “Transatlantic Varieties of IR: Domestic Experience and the Study of the International”.

  • 2011 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, QC, Canada.  Paper: “World Bank Alliances.” 

  • 2010 - International Society of Ecological Economics, Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg, Germany.  Paper: “Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance:  The Growth of a Procedural Norm Without Substance.”

  • 2010 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, USA.  Paper:  “Testing the Knowledge Bank.

  • 2008 - Business Influence in Environmental Governance, University of Oslo, Center for Environment and Development.  Paper: “Norm Contestation and Biodiversity Governance.”

  • 2008 - Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, USA.  Paper: “International Organizations and Public-Private Partnerships.”

  • 2007 - Annual Convention of the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, USA.  Paper: “Partnerships:  Analyzing Contestation and Normative Outcomes”

  • 2007 - Conference on Global Tensions.  McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.  Paper: “The Public-Private Partnerships of International Organizations”.

  • 2000 - Global Environment Facility Delegation presenting at the meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and Implementation (SBSTA), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  Paper: “Global Results of an Assessment of Non-Annex 1 Parties’ Capacity to Implement the United Nations Convention on Climate Change”, Bonn, Germany