Publications
Table of contents
A complete list of all publications can be found here as a PDF.
Policy Papers
Holzscheiter, Anna/Weickardt Soares, Maria (2024), International rules on health data sharing for a new pandemic agreement (Policy Brief 23/2024). Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). DOI: 10.23661/ipb23.2024.
Journal Articles
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.
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: DOI: 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, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00936-X.
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): DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae073.
Hofferberth, Matthias/Lambach, Daniel/Koch, Martin/Holzscheiter, Anna/Zarnegar Deloffre, Maryam/Reiners, Nina/Ronit, Karten (2022), Forum: The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics, International Review, 24 (4): DOI:10.1093/ISR/VIAC054.
Berger, Tobias/Holzscheiter, Anna/Jetschke, Anja/Schmitz, Hans Peter/Esguerra, Alejandro (2022), Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors - A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse, International Review, 24 (3): DOI: 10.1093/ISR/VIAC039.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Gholiagha, Sassan/Liese, Andrea (2021), Advocacy Coalition Constellations and Norm Collisions: Insights from International Drug Control, Human Trafficking, and Child Labour, Global Society: 1-24. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2021.1885352.
Bahr, Thurid/Pantzerhielm, Laura/Holzscheiter, Anna (2021), Understanding Regime Complexes through a Practice Lens. Repertoires of Inter-Organizational Practices in Global Health, Global Governance, 27 (1): 71-94. DOI: 10.1163/19426720-02701005.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2020), Reclaiming the Voice of Youth: Pandemic Politics and Law and the Invisibility of Youth, EJIL:Talk!
Holzscheiter, Anna (2020), Im Auge des Sturms. Die WHO in der COVID-19-Pandemie, Wissenschaft und Frieden, 38 (3).
Gholiagha, Sassan/Holzscheiter, Anna/Liese, Andrea (2020), Activating norm collisions: Interface conflicts in international drug control, Global Constitutionalism, 9 (2): 290-317. DOI: 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): 1-20. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210520000145.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Josefsson, Jonathan/Sandin, Bengt (2019), Child rights governance: An introduction, Childhood, 26 (3): 271-288. DOI: 10.1177/0907568219854518.
Pantzerhielm, Laura/Holzscheiter, Anna/Bahr, Thurid (2019), 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, 44 (4): 1-26. DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2019.1678112.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2018), Affectedness, empowerment and norm contestation – children and young people as social agents in international politics, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3 (5-6): 645-663. DOI: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1600382.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2017), Coping with Institutional Fragmentation? Competition and Convergence between Boundary Organizations in the Global Response to Polio, Review of Policy Research, 34 (6): 767-789. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12256.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2017), Was vom arguing übrigblieb… Der Nachhall der kommunikativen Wende in den Internationalen Beziehungen, ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 24 (1): 143-159. DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2017-1-143.
Kickbusch, Ilona/Franz, Christian/ Holzscheiter, Anna/Hunger, Iris/Jahn, Albrecht/Köhler, Carsten/Razum, Oliver/Schmidt, Jean-Olivier (2017), Germany's expanding role in global health, The Lancet, 390 (10097): 898-912. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31460-5.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2016), Representation as power and performative practice: Global civil society advocacy for working children, Review of International Studies, 42 (2): 205-226. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210515000145.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Bahr, Thurid/Pantzerhielm, Laura (2016), Emerging Governance Architectures in Global Health: Do Metagovernance Norms Explain Inter-Organisational Convergence?, Politics and Governance, 4 (3): 5-19. DOI: 10.17645/pag.v4i3.566.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Bahr, Thurid/Pantzerhielm, Laura (2016), Zwischen Chaos und Choreografie. Wer bestimmt die Architektur der internationalen Gesundheitspolitik?, WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 152: 6-9.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2015), Restoring Order in Global Health Governance, Center for European Studies (CES) Papers Open Forum, 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, in: Liese, Andrea/Conceiçao-Heldt, Eugénia d./Koch, Martin (Hrsg.), Internationale Organisationen. Autonomie, Politisierung, interorganisationale Beziehungen und Wandel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 327-353.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2014), Between Communicative Interaction and Structures of Signification: Discourse Theory and Analysis in International Relations, International Studies Perspectives, 15 (2): 142-162. DOI: 10.1111/insp.12005.
Hahn, Kristina/Holzscheiter, Anna (2013), The Ambivalence of Advocacy: Representation and Contestation in Global NGO Advocacy for Child Workers and Sex Workers, Global Society, 27 (4): 497-520. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2013.823914.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Walt, Gill/Brugha, Ruairi (2012), Monitoring and evaluation in global HIV/AIDS control-weighing incentives and disincentives for coordination among global and local actors, Journal of International Development, 24 (1): 61-76. DOI: 10.1002/jid.1705.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2011), Power of discourse or discourse of the powerful?, Journal of Language and Politics, 10 (1): 1-28. DOI: 10.1075/jlp.10.1.01hol.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2005), Discourse as Capability: Non-State Actors' Capital in Global Governance, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 33 (3): 723-746. DOI: 10.1177/03058298050330030301.
Books (Monographs)
Holzscheiter, Anna/Stachursky, Benjamin/Stamm, Lena (2017), Die Umsetzung von Kinderrechten beobachten. Eine Instrumentenauswahl für die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2014), Children's rights in international politics. The transformative power of discourse, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Cantwell, Nigel/Holzscheiter, Anna (2008), Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 20. Children deprived of their family environment, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Articles in edited volumes
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.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2021), Governing Children’s Rights in Global Social Policy. International Organizations and the Thin Line Between Child Protection and Empowerment, in: Martens, Kerstin/Niemann, Dennis/Kaasch, Alexandra (eds.), International Organizations in Global Social Governance, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 139-162.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2020), Children as Agents in International Relations? Transnational Activism, International Norms, and the Politics of Age, in: Beier, J. M. (ed.), Discovering childhood in international relations, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 65-87.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2018), Health, in: Risse, Thomas/Börzel, Tanja A./Draude, Anke (eds.), The Oxford handbook of governance and limited statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Krause, Monika (2013), Macht und Global Governance – Repräsentationsmacht und feldspezifische Logiken des Handelns von NRO im transnationalen Raum, in: Stetter, Stephan (ed.), Ordnung und Wandel in der Weltpolitik. Konturen einer Soziologie der internationalen Beziehungen ; [Tagung zum Thema "Soziologie der Internationalen Beziehungen" … im Dezember 2010 in Steingaden, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 125-151.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2012), International Health Partnership and IHP+, in: Held, David/Hale, Thomas N. (eds.), Handbook of Transnational Governance. Institutions & Innovations, London: Polity Press, 189-194.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2012), UNITAID, in: Held, David/Hale, Thomas N. (eds.), Handbook of Transnational Governance. Institutions & Innovations, London: Polity Press, 394-399.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2012), Non-Governmental Organizations, in: Montgomery, Heather (eds.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Holzscheiter, Anna/Farfan, José (2011), The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power, in: Wodak, Ruth/Johnstone, Barbara/Kerswill, Paul (eds.), The SAGE handbook of sociolinguistics, London: 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: Olesen, Thomas (ed.), Power and transnational activism, London: Routledge, 173-189.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2009), Internationale Menschenrechte von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Schutz und Emanzipation, in: Bielefeldt, Heiner (ed.), Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2010. Kinder und Jugendliche, Wien: Böhlau, 69-82.
Holzscheiter, Anna (2003), Sprache, Diskurs, kommunikatives Handeln', in: Peters, Ingo/Risse, Thomas (eds.), PolitikON Modul ‚Konstruktivistische IB-Theorien, Teilbereich Internationale Beziehungen, DVPW: online Veröffentlichung.