Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order

Antje Wiener holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg, where she is also a Professor of Law. She is a By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Member of the Academia Europea. She obtained her MA from FU Berlin and her PhD from Carleton University, and held Chairs in International Studies at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Bath. She also taught at Stanford, Sussex, and Hannover. She is founding editor of Global Constitutionalism and the Springer Series Norm Research in International Relations.David A. Lake is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, San Diego. He was formerly the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences (2010-2024) and Distinguished Professor of Political Science (2009-2024). He has served as President of the American Political Science Association (2016-2017) and President of the International Studies Association (2010-2011). The recipient of UCSD Chancellor's Associates Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005) and Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (2013), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics at the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS) at Freie Universität Berlin. He has taught in the US at Cornell, Yale, Stanford, and Harvard universities and the University of Wyoming and in Europe at the University of Konstanz and the European University Institute, Florence. He chairs the Academic Advisory Board of the German Council on Foreign Relations. His research interests include international relations theory, norms and transnational actors in world politics, governance in areas of limited statehood, European integration, and European identity, as well as transatlantic relations and the contemporary challenges to the liberal international order.

• 1: David A. Lake and Antje Wiener: Introduction: Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order 2: Antje Wiener: Dealing with Sources, Substance, and Effects of Deep Contestation: Quod Omnes Tangit as a Heuristic 3: Nicole Deitelhoff: Conflict Sociology and Contestation: What Makes Contestation Productive? 4: David A. Lake: Crisis of Legitimacy: Deep Contestation, Inequality, and the Liberal International Order 5: Kathryn Sikkink: How Moral Psychology Can Help Us Understand Deep Contestation of the Prohibition on the Threat and Use of Force 6: Mathias Albert: No Contestation Without Comparison: Practices of Military Force Comparison as Modes of World Ordering 7: Tanja A. Börzel: From Postnational Liberalism to Postliberal Nationalism: Deep Contestations and the Future of the European Liberal Order 8: Jeffrey T. Checkel: Identity Politics and Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order: The Case of Europe 9: Beth A. Simmons: The Liberal International Order and International Borders in the Twenty-First Century 10: Manjeet S. Pardesi: The Liberal International Order as a Core-Periphery Order: An Alternative History with Multiple Deep Contestations 11: Thomas Risse: Conclusions: Deep Contestations and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order