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Cristiana Maglia

Senior Research Fellow
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Summary

Cristiana Maglia is a senior research fellow at NUPI. She is currently the post-doctoral researcher of the project Ad hoc crisis response and international organizations (ADHOCISM), funded by the Research Council of Norway. At NUPI, she also worked in the LORAX and Market for Anarchy projects.

She holds a PhD in Political Science (2020) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Her areas of expertise include global governance, international organizations, comparative politics and Brazilian political institutions. Her work has been published in journals such as International Affairs, Global Networks and Global Studies Quarterly.

Expertise

  • Regional integration
  • South and Central America
  • Nationalism
  • Governance
  • Comparative methods

Education

2020 PhD, Political Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

2018-2019 Visiting Doctoral Student, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford

2016 Master's degree in Political Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

2014 Bachelor's degree in International Relations, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Work Experience

2020- Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

2016-2019 Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

2014-2016 Research Associate - Centre for International Studies on Government (CEGOV), Brazil

Aktivitet

Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Ecosystems and Ordering: Exploring the Extent and Diversity of Ecosystem Governance

This article argues that, to grasp how global ordering will be impacted by planetary-level changes, we need to systematically attend to the question of the extent to which and how ecosystems are being governed. Our inquiry builds upon—but extends beyond—the environmental governance measures that have garnered the most scholarly attention so far. The dataset departs from the current literature on regional environmental governance by taking ecosystems themselves as the unit of analysis and then exploring whether and how they are governed, rather than taking a starting point in environmental institutions and treaties. The ecosystems researched—large-scale marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems—have been previously identified by a globe-spanning, natural science inquiry. Our findings highlight the uneven extent of ecosystem governance—both the general geographic extent and certain “types” of ecosystems seemingly lending themselves more easily to ecosystem-based cooperation. Furthermore, our data highlight that there is a wider range of governance practices anchored in ecosystems than the typical focus on environmental institutions reveals. Of particular significance is the tendency by political actors to establish multi-issue governance anchored in the ecosystems themselves and covering several different policy fields. We argue that, in light of scholarship on ecosystem-anchored cooperation and given the substantive set of cases of such cooperation identified in the dataset, these forms of ecosystem-anchored cooperation may have particularly significant ordering effects. They merit attention in the international relations scholarship that seeks to account for the diversity of global ordering practices.

  • Regional integration
  • Climate
  • Oceans
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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  • Regional integration
  • Climate
  • Oceans
  • Governance
  • International organizations
Articles
New research
Articles
New research

Ad hoc coalitions are increasingly charged to tackle international crises

How does this impact on international organisations?
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Global governance
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • AU
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation

Ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) are an indispensable but scantly conceptualized part of global governance. In recent years, several typologies and classifications of global governance arrangements have been provided, mostly differentiating them based on their organizational design features of degree of formality and membership composition. These do not capture AHCs and the role they play in global governance. In this article, we not only provide a conceptualization of AHCs, but also propose ways in which AHCs fit within the broader global governance architecture. We argue that what sets AHCs apart is not so much their (in)formality or membership, but rather their short-notice creation, their task-specific purpose and their temporarily circumscribed existence. We therefore define AHCs as autonomous arrangements with a task-specific mandate established at short notice for a limited time frame. We then develop a research agenda on the nature and future of AHCs, including their short- and long-term relationship with other multilateral arrangements in the global governance architecture. This is important, as we do yet not know how AHCs complement, compete and impact on international organizations and international crisis response.

  • Security policy
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  • Security policy
Publications
Publications

Global networks in national governance? Changes of professional expertise in Amazon environmental governance

In 2019, wildfires in the Amazon renewed international concern about Brazilian environmental policy, led by Jair Bolsonaro. As one of the biggest repositories of the world's biodiversity, the Amazon Rainforest has been a source of concern in global environmental governance. Given this salience, one would expect that domestic governance would be highly permeated by professionals with international circulation and that transnational ties would be a central target of Bolsonaro's populist nationalistic perspective. In this article, I seek to understand whether and how professionals involved in policymaking in the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment are connected to national and international organizations, by analyzing the networks of career paths of high-ranking staff in the Rousseff, Temer and Bolsonaro administrations. The data show a consistently low percentage of ties between professionals and international organizations. However, the types of international experience and knowledge that are deemed important shifted significantly under Bolsonaro. This publication is part of the Market for Anarchy project.

  • South and Central America
  • Nationalism
  • Climate
  • Governance
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  • South and Central America
  • Nationalism
  • Climate
  • Governance
Forskningsprosjekt
2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)

Ad hoc crisis response and international organisations (ADHOCISM)

ADHOCISM asks what is the impact of ad hoc crisis responses on international organisations?...

  • Security policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • AU
  • Security policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • AU
Articles
Articles

Research group for Peace, Conflict and Development

What can we do to prevent war? How can countries emerging from conflict avoid relapse? How well do international peace operations actually work?
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Nation-building
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Peace, Conflict and Development

What can we do to prevent war? How can countries emerging from conflict avoid relapse? How well do international peace operations actually work?
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Nation-building
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Research Project
2018 - 2023 (Completed)

The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)

Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?...

  • Diplomacy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • South and Central America
  • The Arctic
  • Climate
  • Oceans
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Diplomacy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • South and Central America
  • The Arctic
  • Climate
  • Oceans
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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Research Project
2018 - 2022 (Completed)

The Market for Anarchy

The Market for Anarchy project seeks to better understand how state behaviour is shaped by assessments of and responses to different types of risks....

  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • Governance
  • International organizations