RTG 2987: Mobility Rights in
the Global Context of Multiple Crises

Dennis Quint M.A.

Since October 2025, I am a graduate student and a member of RTG2987 who specialises in International Relations. I hold a B.A. in Political Science/Economics and an M.A. in Global Politics, both awarded by Georg-August-University Göttingen. Before pursuing a graduate de-gree, I worked as student assistant to the Chair of International Relations (Prof. Dr. Anja Jetschke) and helped at data analysis for the Comparative Regional Organisation Project (CROP). My current research interests include:


  • International Organisations: Which factors determine their institutional design and which norms they espouse? How does their institutional design facilitate (or hamper) successful state cooperation?
  • Comparative Regionalism: How do regional integration processes vary across world regions and policy fields? What might explain these variations?
  • International Law: Under anarchy, what is the nature and purpose of law when its enforcement depends on the political will of its subjects? In such conditions, how can states be held accountable for their (non-)actions?



Research Project

In my research for RTG Research Area 2 (“Pathways to Legal Migration”), I inquire global responsibility-sharing for refugees and how the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees at-tempts to politically operationalise its normative goal of a more equitable distribution of re-sponsibility among the international community.
More specifically, my PhD thesis will focus on the Global Refugee Forum (GRF), a regular conference organised by UNHCR where national governments and other stakeholders are called upon to contribute on a voluntary basis to the Compact’s goals. My research questions include:


  • Who contributes voluntarily to whom, how much, and for which purposes?
  • How do national governments (and other stakeholders) decide on voluntary contributions?
  • Which actors, such as international organisations or civil society, and structures, such as the GRF’s institutional design, influence these decisions?


Through this work on one of the most debated (and divisive) policy issues in international politics, Dennis Quint wishes to advance not only to the research on global migration governance but also to further our understanding of how global governance might succeed in an increasingly multipolar world without uniform global leadership nor clear focal points to converge around.