Brief Bio

 
Autumn Lockwood Payton is a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung) in the Research Unit Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions. She obtained her PhD in political science from The Ohio State University in 2009. As a scholar of International Relations, her research explores the strategies of small states in achieving favorable bargaining outcomes in international negotiations as well as decision making processes in international organizations.

Other research interests: institutional design, political methodology, international law and human rights.