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Discussant: Prof. Frédéric Mérand, CÉRIUM, Université de Montréal on 30 November 2021 at the Research Centre Normative Orders of Goethe University
Steffek, Jens: International Organization as Technocratic Utopia. Oxford University Press 2021 and Marieke Louis, Lucile Maertens: Why International Organizations Hate Politics. Depoliticizing the World. Routledge 2021
Presented by: Research Centre “Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt
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