Director of Research
Jofre Rocabert
Barcelona, 1988
International organizations and regionalism
Jofre Rocabert holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from ETH Zurich and has been post-doctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). His research focuses on the legitimacy of international organizations and comparative regionalism.
Posts
Adaptation and reemergence: the future of International Organizations
23/11/2025
Analysts of the new world order seem to assume that, in this era of global affairs, international organizations (IOs) are destined to become shells of their former selves. Hollowed-out structures without agency and weight of their own. And, while it is true that some IOs are seeing their capacities diminished and their goals repurposed, I […]
The war in Ukraine and the European Union
25/05/2022
European Union (EU) observers often write that the evolution of its foreign policy is a function of how it takes advantage of crises. The immobility of the institutions during the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia generated enough consensus to place the common foreign and security policy at a central role in the reforms of […]
The European Union is an international organization
29/01/2021
The European Union seems to be living in an almost permanent institutional crisis. But looking at it through a wider perspective, we are still living in the historical period that the French inaugurated when they refused to ratify the constitutional treaty in 2005. The departure of the United Kingdom and the disintegration of freedom of […]