Felicity Vabulas

Articles

• Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change. Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, Cambridge University Press, Summer 2025.
• Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US. Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, The Review of International Organizations, 2024.
• When do member state withdrawals lead to the death of international organizations? Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, European Journal of International Relations, 2024.
• The Importance of Rational Institutionalism in the Analysis of Informal International Institutions. Charles Roger, Duncan Snidal and Felicity Vabulas, International Politics, 2023.
• When Do Withdrawal Threats Achieve Reform in Intergovernmental Organizations? Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, Global Perspectives, 2022.

• On IGO Withdrawal by States vs Leaders, and Exogenous Measures for Inference. Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, The Review of International Organizations, 2021.

• Cooperation under Autonomy: Building and Analyzing the Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 2.0 Data Set. Felicity Vabulas and Duncan Snidal, Journal of Peace Research, 2020.

• Informal IGOs as Mediators of Power Shifts. Felicity Vabulas and Duncan Snidal, Global Policy, 2020.

• Hello, Goodbye: When do States Withdraw from International Organizations?, Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, The Review of International Organizations, 2019
• Nudging the Needle: Foreign Lobbies and US Human Rights Ratings, Jon Pevehouse and Felicity Vabulas, International Studies Quarterly, 2019
• Credible Commitments? Explaining IGO Suspensions to Sanction Political Backsliding, Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, International Studies Quarterly, 2019
• Organization Without Delegation: Informal Intergovernmental Organizations (IIGOs) and the Spectrum of Intergovernmental Arrangements, The Review of International Organizations, 2013

Edited Volume Chapters

• 2023. Soft Pooling: How IIGOs Govern Collective Decision-making without Delegation. Felicity Vabulas and Duncan Snidal. Informal Governance in World Politics (Cambridge University Press). Kenneth Abbott and Thomas Biersteker (ed.)
• 2021. Informality in International Political Economy. Chapter for the 2021 Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy. Jon Pevehouse and Leonard Seabrooke (ed.)
• 2019. Transnational Administration in Informal International Organizations. Handbook on Global Policy and Transnational Administration (Oxford University Press). Kimberly Moloney & Diane Stone (ed.)
• 2019. Rational Choice and the G20. G20 and International Relations Theory. Stephen Slaughter (ed.)
• 2013. Consultative and Observer Status of NGOs in Intergovernmental Organizations. Bob Reinalda (ed.) Handbook of International Organization 2013, Routledge: London.

• Blanche E. Seaver Associate Professor of International Studies (2024-2029)
• Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Scripts" workshop on Backlash Politics, September 2025
• Arizona State University Human Rights Hub Human Rights and Democratic Backsliding Workshop, August 2023.
• European Research Council Decline and Death of International Organizations Workshop, Maastricht, June 2023.

• Seaver College Pandemic Research Recovery Grant, 2021-22 (with Amanda Rizkallah)

• Pepperdine University Endowed Fellowship, 2020/21

• University College London’s Global Engagement Fund: 2020/21 (with Inken von Borzyskowski).

• Rethinking Multilateralism for the Post-COVID Era Grant: 2021 (administered by Vijayendra Rao (World Bank), JP Singh (George Mason University), and Michael Woolcock (World Bank))

• Academic Exchange trip to Israel and Palestine, December 6-16 2019

• International Studies Association Committee Grant for the Workshop on International Organization Dissolution, June 18-19 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland.

• International Studies Association at UNAI: "The United Nations at 75" event series; Grant for the Workshop on UN Financing, Fall 2020 in New York, NY

• Dean's Research Grant: Spring 2019

• International Studies Association Committee Grant for the Workshop on International Organization Dissolution, June 18-19 in Zurich, Switzerland

• International Studies Association at UNAI: "The United Nations at 75" event series; Grant for the Workshop on UN Financing, Fall 2020 in New York, NY

• Winner of the 2015-2016 University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) Excellence in Teaching Award
• International Studies Association Travel Grant, February 2015
• National Science Foundation Grant 1023967 (PI: Jon Pevehouse): Foreign Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy, August 2010
• P.E.O. Scholar Award, P.E.O. International, August 2011-June 2012
• University of Chicago: Doolittle-Harrison Conference Award, March 2011, November 2009
• University of Chicago: Program on Political Institutions Conference Award, March 2011, September 2009
• University of Chicago: Program on Political Institutions, Graduate Fellow, 2008-2009
• Harris School of Public Policy Studies: Women in Public Policy Conference Fund Grant, Spring 2012, Winter 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2008
• University of Chicago: Program on Political Institutions, Research Grant (with Boris Shor), 2007