Research in this area combines macro-analytical perspectives on global institutions and regimes with micro-oriented studies of actors, preferences, and distributional conflicts. A key interest lies in how political inequalities are made visible, represented, or kept invisible, for example in international organizations, cooperation forums, and forms of international parliamentarism. One line of work examines how governments and parties in the Global North and South compose parliamentary delegations, which forms of inequality (economic, political, cultural) they highlight on international stages, and which they choose to ignore. A recurring theme is the analysis of networked politics: how states, elites, and societal actors are embedded in global governance and interdependence networks, and how network positions shape influence, vulnerability, and representation. Methodologically, the approach is empirically analytical and pluralist, drawing on comparative case studies, surveys, and document analysis as well as social network analysis and the use of large datasets.