Transnational mobilization and the legitimacy of regional international organizations: Civil society advocacy targeting ASEAN


  • Date: May 21st, Thursday, 2026, 15:00 – 17:00
  • Online via Zoom

Presenter: Anders Uhlin (Professor, Lund University)

Anders Uhlin is professor of Political Science. His main research interests are in the fields of civil society, transnational activism, global governance, and democratization. Uhlin has conducted research on the legitimacy of international organizations, which among other publications has resulted in the edited volume Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance, (Oxford University Press, co-edited with Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson). Another research project concerns civil society elites in Cambodia and Indonesia. Uhlin has also conducted research on civil society elites in a European context within the research program Civil Society Elites? Uhlin is currently on a research sabbatical in Indonesia, conducting research on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Uhlin has been teaching and supervising widely on all levels, for example within the fields of development studies, international politics, and democratization. In November 2011 he obtained the title Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP).