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Regine's research focuses on comparative public policy governance, broadly situated in interpretive and critical policy analysis, inspired by constructivist political sociology, science and technology studies, as well as cultural political economy. She explores how ideas, material structures, and power relations co-shape policy and regulation. Her empirical expertise is in migration and mobility governance, risk analysis and risk regulation, and the governance of and with artificial intelligence technologies. 

Regine is author of the monograph "" (with Daniel Mügge/Vali Stan @UvA, fc Dec 2025) and currently works on a series of papers on the hidden politics of Norway's "responsible AI" regulatory sandbox (with Heidrun Åm @NTNU).

She is an Editor of , the 2021  (short promotional video ) and the 2024 (see open access ). In addition to numerous journal articles (e.g. in Regulation & Governance, Socio-Economic Review, Governance, or the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies) Regine published two sole-authored monographs  (2021) (short intro ) and (2015) which explains variable labour migration governance regimes in Europe.

Regine has designed and is course responsible for the MA level electives "The Politics and Governance of Migration" and "AI for Good? The Global Governance and Politics of Technology". She has also been responsible for MA level courses in Research Design and International Organisations and the European Union (GOV 107) at the BA level, where she introduced project-based learning in 2022. Regine's teaching portfolio also covers policy analysis, decolonial public administration, qualitative and comparative methods. She is happy to supervise BA and MA theses in any of these broad areas of expertise.

Regine advises the following PhD candidates:

• Sjoerd de Winter (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) working on Norway-EU relations and policymaking (main adviser)
• Synne Augestad Lysberg (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) working on policy instrumentation in higher education (co-adviser)
• Dorothea Biaback Anong (Humboldt Universität Berlin) working on free movement and mobility regimes in the EU, ECOWAS and Mercosur (co-adviser)
• Nicholas Henkel (Universität Kassel) working on refugee migration policy reforms in Germany and Hungary (co-adviser)

Regine was part of a working group to design the Department's English-speaking MA program The Politics and Governance of Global Challenges around a student-centered project-based learning approach (2021-2022). The program came to attract the highest applicants-student places-ratio at the whole university in 2023 and 2024 and has won the .

In 2022, Regine was awarded the status as "" by the Social Sciences Faculty.

From 2025-2028, Regine leads an NFR-funded UTFORSK project on "A global classroom for global challenges" (with Lise Rakner and Martina Vukasovic) focusing on decolonial teaching/curricula/course development and student mobilities with partners in Brazil, Canada, South Africa and the United States.

(only publications since 2015 listed here, for more details see my researchgate account)

Monographies

2025: . Newcastle on Tyne: Agenda Publishing (Series 'Comparative Political Economy'), with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan

2021: . London: Routledge (Series ‘Studies in Governance and Public Policy’)  

2015: Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books (paperback edition published in 2019)

Edited volumes

2024: . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Emma Carmel and Jennifer Cobbe)

2021: . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner)

2017: , Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Marc Mölders, Alfons Bora, Michael Huber and Peter Münte)

Peer-reviewed articles

2024: ‘’, Regulation & Governance, 18(4), 1065-1082.

2022: '', Critical Policy Studies 16(4), 497-509

2022: '', IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 41(2), with Emma Carmel

2022: ‘’, Regulation & Governance 16(1), 274-292, with Olivier Borraz et al., doi: 10.1111/rego.12320

2020: ‘’, der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 13(1), 124-142. doi: 10.3224/dms.v13i1.11

2020: ‘’, Governance (part of a special issue ‘Varieties of regulatory capitalism’, edited by M. Guidi, I. Guardiancich and D. Levi-Faur),  with Henry Rothstein and David Demeritt

2019: ‘?’, European Security , 28(4): 393-412, with Christof Roos

2019: ‘’, Socio-Economic Review , 17(4): 393-412, with Henry Rothstein et al.

2017: ‘.’ Journal of European Integration , 39(6): 689-706.

2016: ‘.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 42(10), 1631-1650.

2016: ‘.’ Journal of Risk Research , 19(8): 1043-1062, with Fréderic Bouder and Mara Wesseling.

Book chapters

2025: Frontex risk analysis and the crisis-driven expansion of coordinated European border control’, in Weinar, A., Zhyznomirska, L., Cleton, L. and N. Irastorza (eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, London: Routledge.

2024: ‘’, in R. Paul, E. Carmel, and J. Cobbe (eds), Handbook of Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence, Cheltenham Spa.

2024: ‘, in R. Paul, E. Carmel, and J. Cobbe (eds), Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence, Cheltenham Spa: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2022: ‘’, in Brown, P. and J. Zinn (Hrsg.) COVID-19 – From the perspective of the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, London: Routledge, pp. 115-143, with Henry Rothstein, David Demeritt und Li Wang.

2022: ‘The comparative politics of migration governance in Europe.’ Anghel, Veronica and E. Jones (eds.) , London: Bloomsbury, pp. 137-150.

2021: ‘The governance and politics of international migration: A conceptual-analytical map.’ Carmel, E., Lenner, K. and R. Paul (eds.) Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner.

2019: ‘The political ordering of migrant workers: Comparative governance analysis of European labour migration policies’. Carmel, E. (ed.): Governance Analysis: A New Approach to Politics, Policy and Practice, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 93-111.

2018: ‘How ‘low-skilled’ migrant workers are made: border-drawing in migration policy’, Rijken, C. and T. de Lange (eds. ) Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low Waged Migrant Workers, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 57-78.

2018: ‘Risk as a governance tool in European border control’, Weinar, A., Bonjour, S., and L. Zhyznomirska (eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, London: Routledge, p. 227-238.

2017: ‘Shaping society: New modes of social change in regulation and governance? An introduction.’ Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Marc Mölders, p. 1-12.

2017: ‘Risk: new issue or new tool in regulation and governance research?’ Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 59-74.

Encyclopedia Entries

2026/fc: ‘Artificial intelligence’, in Wilson, G. and M. Maguire (eds.): Elgar Encyclopaedia of Business and Government, Cheltenham Spa: Edward Elgar.

2026/fc: ‘Artificial intelligence technologies and (the) international political economy’, in van Appeldoorn, B. and N. de Graaf (eds.): Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy, Cheltenham Spa: Edward Elgar, with Daniel Mügge.

My on-going research focuses on 

The politics of regulating artificial intelligence technologies in Europe in its global place

1. How have the EU's convoluted roles and identities as normative power for democracy and fundamental rights, as market power and competition state in the global race to AI, as dominant data colonialist, and as prime user of tech in its own governance projects co-shaped its AIT regulation?
2. How are struggles and conflicting rationalities emerging from these multiple identities being negotiated by different actors in concrete policy practice (e.g. in so-called sandboxes, in EU-funded educational programs for public sector officials, or in negotiations with third countries) and to what effect?
3. How does the EU's AI governance approach shape experiences with AI production and deployment in the global south?
4. How do (hidden) normativities about Europe's desirable role in the AI race and global AI regulation shape the politics of knowledge creation in European AI governance analysis?