Tim Heinkelmann-Wild is a Research Fellow at the Chair of Global Governance and Public Policy and the Chair of International Relations at LMU Munich, Germany. He previously obtained a Bachelor in Political Science and History as well as a Master in Political Science at LMU Munich. He held visiting positions at Nuffield College as well as the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford. He works on blame games and international organizations, such as the European Union or the International Monetary Fund, the contestation of international institutions by established powers, and indirect governance in warfare.

Berthold Rittberger is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at LMU Munich, Germany. He previously held positions at the University of Mannheim and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. He obtained his [...]. at the University of Oxford and was a Prize Research Fellow (PPRF) at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is co-editor in chief of the Journal of European Public Policy (together with Jeremy Richardson).

Bernhard Zangl is Professor of Global Governance and Public Policy at LMU Munich, Germany. He holds an MA from the University of Tübingen and a PhD from the University of Bremen. Before moving to Munich in 2009, he was a Professor of International Relations at the University of Bremen. He also held visiting positions at Harvard University, the European University Institute, Northwestern University, and the Berlin Social Science Center. His research focusses on international institutions, their adjustments to global power shifts as well as the dynamics of indirect governance in international institutions.

Lisa Kriegmair studied Political Science, Economics and Environmental Studies in Munich, Birmingham and Venice. She holds an MA and a doctorate in Political Science from LMU Munich. Her research interests include blame games, national governments' blame avoidance behaviour, and credit conditionality and European economic governance. She currently works as a Project Manager for European and International Affairs for the City of Munich.

• 1: Beyond blaming Europe


• 2: European blame games: a public plausibility assessment


• 3: The policy failure hypothesis (with Juliane Glovania and Louisa Klein-Bölting)


• 4: The policy making hypothesis


• 5: The policy implementation hypothesis(with Josef Lolacher)


• 6: The promise of European blame games