Benjamin Dassler is Principal Investigator of the project “The Politics of Contender Institutions in International Regime Complexes (POLCON)” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at LMU Munich. His research focuses on global governance, the contestation of international institutions, and international regime complexes. He is the author of the book “The Institutional Topology of International Regime Complexes”, published by Oxford University Press, and of peer-reviewed articles which appeared in ISQ, RIO, EJIR, JIRD, amongst others.