Adam Lupel has been Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute since 2016. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. He is responsible for developing IPI’s long-term research agenda and for overseeing management and coordination among all IPI Departments. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the director of research and publications for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, a project of IPI. In 2015, he led IPI’s support to the General Assembly-mandated “Lessons Learned Exercise” on the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, working in close collaboration with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Dr. Lupel also conducts research on issues related to globalization, multilateralism, and the prevention of mass atrocities. He is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma (2009) and the co-editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (2011) and Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (2013).

Prior to 2006, when he joined IPI as Editor, he was the Managing Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, and he taught modern and contemporary political theory at The New School’s Eugene Lang College in New York. He has a PhD in political theory and an MA in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University.

He tweets at @ALupel.

Selected Publications

Books

• Adam Lupel and Ernesto Verdeja, eds., Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2013).
• James Cockayne and Adam Lupel, eds. Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (London, UK: Routledge, 2011). An earlier version of this manuscript was published as James Cockayne and Adam Lupel, eds. “Peace Operations and Organized Crime,” Special Issue, International Peacekeeping 16 No. 1 (February 2009).
• Adam Lupel, Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma (London, UK: Routledge, 2009).

Articles

• Adam Lupel, “Thought Leadership in Uncertain Times: Four Global Trends,” in The Future of Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the United States, edited by James McGann (Geneva: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
• Adam Lupel and Lauri Mälksoo, “A Necessary Voice: Small States, International Law, and the UN Security Council” (New York: International Peace Institute, April 2019)
• Adam Lupel and Michael Snyder, “The Mission to Stop Ebola: Lessons for UN Crisis Response” (New York: International Peace Institute, February 2017)
• Alex J. Bellamy and Adam Lupel, “Why We Fail to Prevent Mass Atrocities” (New York: International Peace Institute, June 2015)
• Adam Lupel, “Global Crises and the Future of Transnational Democracy,” in Global Citizens in Charge: How Modern Direct Democracy Can Make Our Representative Democracies Truly Representative, edited by Jung-Ok Lee and Bruno Kaufmann (Seoul: Korea Democracy Foundation, 2009).
• Adam Lupel, “Tasks of a Global Civil Society: Held, Habermas and Democratic Legitimacy Beyond the Nation-State,” Globalizations 2, No. 1 (May 2005).
• Adam Lupel, “Regionalism and Globalization: Post-nation or Extended Nation?” Polity 36, No. 2 (January 2004).

Global Observatory

• “Thinking Globally about the War in Ukraine: Three Takeaways from Munich,” March 3, 2023 (with Jenna Russo).
• “The Multilateralism Index: Measuring Transformation in a Time of Crisis and Uncertainty,” January 9, 2023.
• “Two Tasks to Get Past the Crisis of Multilateralism,” August 5, 2019.
• “In Peace and in War Gender Equality Is Everyone’s Battle,” December 13, 2018 (with Sarah Taylor).
• “Everyone Supports Preventing Atrocity Crimes, But What Works?” May 7, 2018.
• “Reimagining Crisis Response: Lessons from the UN’s Ebola Mission,” February 28, 2017 (with Michael Snyder).
• “Multilateral Jiu-Jitsu: Turning Crisis into Opportunity,” February 8, 2017.
• “Toward a New ‘Agenda for Peace,'” September 23,2016.
• “Balancing Sovereignty and Democracy at the UN,” September 16, 2013.
• “Political Alternatives to Military Action in Syria: Interview with Adam Lupel,” September 4, 2013.
• “Debating the Use of Force: When Should We Intervene to Stop Mass Atrocities,” July 22, 2013.
• “Sixth Summit of the Americas: What Are They Really Talking About,” April 13, 2012.
• “In the Shadow of Violence, it’s the Right vs the Right in Guatemalan Election,” November 4, 2011.