Alexandru V. Grigorescu is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on international organizations, especially on how they adopt structures and roles similar to domestic institutions. His work has been published in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Review of International Organizations, and World Politics. He is the author of Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? (2015) and The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance (2020), both with Cambridge University Press. In the early 1990s, before his academic career, he served as a diplomat in the Romanian Foreign Ministry and was posted to the UN.