Publications
Table of contents
A complete list of all publications is available here as a PDF.
Latest Publications
Atikcan, Ece Özlem, Holzscheiter, Anna, Morin, Jean-Frédéric & Henrichsen, Tim. (2026). Tracing Frame Trajectories in Policy Debates: Placing the EU in Global Discourse Networks. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.70134.
Holzscheiter, Anna & Atikcan, Ece Özlem (2026), “Discourse Networks and Contentious Global Public Policy.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.70124.
Weickardt Soares, Maria & Holzscheiter, Anna (2026), How Fragmented Are Global Policy Debates on Health Data Sharing? Studying Fragmentation Through Discourse Network Analysis. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.70099.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2025), “Speaking Norms: Discourse Analytical Approaches and Methodologies in Norms Research,” in: Gholiagha, Sassan/Orchard, Phil/Wiener, Antje (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations, Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 163–174.
Monographs and Special Issues
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Josefsson, Jonathan, Pantzerhielm, Laura, & Lövbrand, Eva. (2025). The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions [Special issue]. Globalizations, 22(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2025.2471705
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Josefsson, Jonathan, & Sandin, Bengt (Eds.). (2019). Child rights governance [Special issue]. Childhood, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568219854518
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2010). Children’s rights in international politics: The transformative power of discourse. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281646
*Cantwell, Nigel, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2008). A commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Article 20 – Children without parental care. Martinus Nijhoff.
Journal articles
*Atikcan, Ece Özlem, Holzscheiter, Anna, Morin, Jean-Frédéric & Henrichsen, Tim. (2026). Tracing Frame Trajectories in Policy Debates: Placing the EU in Global Discourse Networks. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70134.
*Holzscheiter, Anna, & Atikcan, Ece Özlem. (2026). Discourse networks and contentious global public policy. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70124
*Weickardt Soares, Maria, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2026). How fragmented are global policy debates on health data sharing? Studying fragmentation through discourse network analysis. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70099
*Holzscheiter, Anna, & Pantzerhielm, Laura. (2025). The voice of youth? Performative liminality and the ambiguities of political representation in global governance. Review of International Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210525101459
*Weickardt Soares, Maria, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2025). Biobanking as a contentious issue in global health governance: Diversification and contestation of policy frames in international biobanking debates. Social Science & Medicine, 369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117773
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Josefsson, Jonathan, Lövbrand, Eva, & Pantzerhielm, Laura. (2025). In-between worlds: The unsettled politics of child and youth representation in international institutions. Globalizations, 22(3), 343–357. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2025.2471705
*Stadelmann, Felix, Kramer, Niklas, Pantzerhielm, Laura, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2024). Reckless subjects, future capital? ‘Youth’ as an object of concern in international health organizations’ discourse. Globalizations, 22(3), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2414688
*Holzscheiter, Anna, & Holthaus, Leonie. (2024). Who governs access and voice of civil society in global governance? Practice theory, reflexivity and power in the study of international organisations’ “opening up.” Global Society, 38(3), 412–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2024.2334731
*Orsini, Amandine, Kang, Yi hyun, Ampomah, Emmanuel, Cooper, Adam, Gómez-Mera, Laura, Gran, Brian, Holzscheiter, Anna, Salve, Roberto S., & Vergonjeanne, Anaëlle. (2024). Forum: Youth as boundary actors in international studies. International Studies Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekae016
*Franz, Christian, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Kickbusch, Ilona. (2024). Germany’s role in global health at a critical juncture. The Lancet, 404(10447), 82–94. https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2017-1-143
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Bahr, Thurid, Grandjean, Martin, & Pantzerhielm, Laura. (2024). Positioning among international organizations: Shifting centers of gravity in global health governance. International Studies Quarterly, 68 (2). https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae073
*Hofferberth, Matthias, Holzscheiter, Anna, Lambach, Daniel, Koch, Martin, Zarnegar Deloffre, Maryam, Reiners, Nina, & Ronit, Karsten. (2022). Forum: The why and how of global governors: Relational agency in world politics. International Studies Review, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac054
*Berger, Tobias, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Jetschke, Anja. (2022). Forum: New perspectives on transnational non-state actors: A forum honoring the work of Thomas Risse. International Studies Review, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac039
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Gholiagha, Sassan, & Liese, Andrea. (2022). Advocacy coalition constellations and norm collisions: Insights from international drug control, human trafficking, and child labour. Global Society, 26(1), 25–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2021.1885352
*Pantzerhielm, Laura, Holzscheiter, Anna & Bahr, Thurid. (2022). Governing effectively in a complex world? How metagovernance norms and changing repertoires of knowledge shape international organization discourses on institutional order in global health, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35 (4), 592-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2019.1678112
*Kickbusch, Ilona, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2021). Can geopolitics derail the pandemic treaty? BMJ Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-069129
*Bahr, Thurid, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Pantzerhielm, Laura. (2021). Understanding regime complexes through a practice lens: Repertoires of inter-organizational practices in global health. Global Governance, 27(1), 71–94.
*Gholiagha, Sassan, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Liese, Andrea. (2020). Activating norm collisions: Interface conflicts in international drug control. Global Constitutionalism, 9(2), 290–317. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045381719000388
*Pantzerhielm, Laura, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Bahr, Thurid. (2020). Power in relations of international organisations: The productive effects of ‘good’ governance norms in global health. Review of International Studies, 46(3), 395–414. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210520000145
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Josefsson, Jonathan, & Sandin, Bengt. (2019). Child rights governance: An introduction. Childhood, 26(3), 271–288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568219854518
*Taylor, Angelina, Littmann, Jasper, Holzscheiter, Anna, Voss, Maike, Wieler, Lothar, & Eckmanns, Tim. (2019). Sustainable development levers are key in global response to antimicrobial resistance. The Lancet, 394(10214), 2050–2051. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32555-3
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2018). Affectedness, empowerment and norm contestation: Children and young people as social agents in international politics. Third World Thematics, 3(5–6), 645–663. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1600382
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2017). Coping with institutional fragmentation? Competition and convergence between boundary organizations in international health. Review of Policy Research, 34(6), 767–789. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12256
*Kickbusch, Ilona, Franz, Christian, Holzscheiter, Anna, Hunger, Ilona, Jahn, Albrecht, Köhler, Carsten, Razum, Oliver, & Schmidt, Jean-Olivier. (2017). Germany’s new global health policy. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31460-5
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2017). The legacy of arguing. ZIB. Journal of International Relations, 24(1), 143–159. https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2017-1-143
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Bahr, Thurid, & Pantzerhielm, Laura. (2016). Emerging governance architectures in global health: Do metagovernance norms explain inter-organisational convergence? Politics & Governance, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v4i3.566
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2016). Representation as power and performance: Global civil society advocacy for children and their rights. Review of International Studies, 42(2), 205–226. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210515000145
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2015). Restoring order in global health governance. In Grzegorz Ekiert & Andrew Martin (Eds.), CES Papers Open Forum. Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2015). Interorganisationale Harmonisierung als sine qua non für die Effektivität von Global Governance? Eine soziologisch-institutionalistische Analyse interorganisationaler Strukturen in der globalen Gesundheitspolitik. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 56 (SH 49), 322-348, https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845248516-327
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2014). Between communicative interaction and structures of signification: Discourse theory and analysis in international relations. International Studies Perspectives, 15(2), 142–162. https://doi.org/10.1111/insp.12005
*Hahn, Kristina, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2013). The ambivalence of advocacy: Representation and contestation in global NGO advocacy for child workers and prostitutes. Global Society, 27(4), 497–520. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2013.823914
*Holzscheiter, Anna, & Krause, Monika. (2013). Macht und Global Governance: Repräsentationsmacht und feldspezifische Logiken des Handelns von Nichtregierungsorganisationen im transnationalen Raum. Leviathan, 41(Sonderheft 28), 125–150.
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2012). Non-governmental organizations. In Heather Montgomery (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies online: Childhood studies. Oxford University Press.
*Holzscheiter, Anna, Brugha, Ruairi, & Walt, Gill. (2012). Monitoring and evaluation in HIV/AIDS control: Weighing incentives and disincentives for coordination among global and local actors. Journal of International Development, 24(1), 61–76. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1705
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2012). Power of discourse or discourse of the powerful? The reconstruction of global childhood norms in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Journal of Language and Politics, 10(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.10.1.01hol
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2005). Discourse as capability: Non-state actors’ capital in global governance. Millennium, 33(3) [Special issue: Facets of Power in International Relations], 723–746. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298050330030301
Book chapters
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2025). Speaking norms: Discourse analytical approaches and methodologies in norms research. In Sassan Gholiagha, Phil Orchard, & Antje Wiener (Eds.), Handbook of norms research. Oxford University Press, 163–174. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198915874.013.0014
Stadelmann, Felix, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Stachursky, Benjamin. (2024). Child rights governance in international development. In Tatek Abebe, Karen Wells, & Anandini Dar (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development. Routledge.
Holzscheiter, Anna, & Pantzerhielm, Laura. (2023). Contested childhood and young people’s political representation and agency in global health politics. In Helen Berents & Marshall Beier (Eds.), Children, childhoods and global politics. Routledge.
Holzscheiter, Anna, Bahr, Thurid, & Sperl, Markus. (2022). Health and human rights. In Basil Bornemann, Henrike Knappe, & Patrizia Nanz (Eds.), Routledge handbook of democracy and sustainability. Routledge.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2021). Governing children’s rights in global social policy: International organizations and the thin line between child protection and empowerment. In Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, & Alexandra Kaasch (Eds.), International organizations and global social governance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_6
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2020). Children as agents in international relations? Transnational activism, international norms and the politics of age. In Marshall Beier (Ed.), Discovering childhood in international relations. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46063-1_4
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2018). Health. In Tanja Börzel, Anke Draude, & Thomas Risse (Eds.), Oxford handbook on governance and limited statehood. Oxford University Press.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2012). UNITAID. In David Held & Thomas N. Hale (Eds.), Handbook of transnational governance: Institutions & innovations (pp. 394–399). Polity Press.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2012). International Health Partnership and IHP+. In David Held & Thomas N. Hale (Eds.), Handbook of Transnational Governance: Institutions and Innovations. Polity Press, 189–194.
*Holzscheiter, Anna, & Flores Farfan, José Antonio. (2011). The power of discourse and the discourse of power. In Barbara Johnstone, Ruth Wodak, & Paul Kerswill (Eds.), SAGE handbook of sociolinguistics. Sage, 139–152.
*Holzscheiter, Anna. (2010). The representational power of civil society organisations in global AIDS governance: Advocating for children in global health politics. In Thomas Olesen (Ed.), Power and transnational activism. Routledge, 173–189.
* Holzscheiter, Anna. (2009). Internationale Menschenrechte von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Schutz und Emanzipation. In Heiner Bielefeldt et al. (Eds.), Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2010: Kinder und Jugendliche. Böhlau Verlag, 69–82.
Policy papers and blogs
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2024, 26. März). The silent disintegration of global health governance? Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional. https://doi.org/10.17176/20240326-220600-0
Holzscheiter, Anna, & Weickardt Soares, Maria. (2024). International rules on health data sharing for a new pandemic agreement (IDOS Policy Brief 23/2024). IDOS. https://doi.org/10.23661/ipb23.2024
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2022). A panacea for fixing global health governance? The promises and pitfalls of negotiating a new pandemic treaty (SEF Global Governance Spotlight). Development and Peace Foundation (SEF).
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2021). Pandemic politics, law and the re-negotiation of human rights. In Essay Symposium: Global Governance in the Age of Covid. Weinberg College, Northwestern University.
Hettihewa, Julian, & Holzscheiter, Anna. (2020, 20. Oktober). Reclaiming the voice of youth: Pandemic politics and the invisibility of youth. EJIL: Talk!.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2020). Comparing Covid responses in the UK and Germany: Part II, Germany. UCL Europe Blog.
Gholiagha, Sassan, Holzscheiter, Anna, & Liese, Andrea. (2020). When norms collide: The COVID-19 pandemic and difficult choices on the hierarchy of norms and values. WZB Blog Orders Beyond Borders.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2020). The ugly face of health politics – COVID-19 and the hypocrisy of the ‘saving lives’ metaphor. WZB Blog Orders Beyond Borders.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2020, 23. April). Trumps Stöckchen. IPG Journal für Internationale Politik.
Holzscheiter, Anna. (2020). Im Auge des Sturms: Die WHO in der COVID-19 Pandemie. Wissenschaft & Frieden.
Holzscheiter, Anna, Stachursky, Benjamin, & Stamm, Lena. (2017). Die Umsetzung von Kinderrechten beobachten: Eine Instrumentenauswahl für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte.
Further contributions on COVID-19, including media interviews, are available here.