Milewicz Karolina

Karolina Milewicz is a post-doctoral fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Berne, Switzerland. She completed her PhD thesis in Political Science at the University of Bern in August 2009. In her dissertation Premises and Promises of International Law she investigated empirically states’ international legal commitment, focusing on three related themes: the conceptual framework of global constitutionalisation, the ratification patterns of quasi-constitutional international agreements, as well as the impact of domestic political values, international power structures and trade symmetries (relations) on treaty commitment. Currently she is involved in four projects: (1) The New Wave of Preferential Trade Agreements: Do WTO-plus Agreements further Global Governance? (in the framework of P2.1); (2) Multilateral Treaty Commitment in the post-Cold War Era (with Manfred Elsig, University of Bern); and (3) Toward A Deliberative Global Citizens’ Assembly: Innovating Global Governance (with André Bächtiger, University of Bern; Robert E. Goodin and John Dryzek, Australian National University); and (4) Regional Patterns of International Legal Commitment. Her main research interests are international cooperation, international legal commitment and treaty making, global governance, global constitutionalism and international organisations.