Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations

Antje Wiener has held the Chair of Political Science at the Universität Hamburg since 2009. She is a By-Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2011. She has served on boards of several leading academic journals and has been co-founding editor of the journal Global Constitutionalism with Jim Tully. Among her many book publications are three monographs: 'European' Citizenship Practice: Building Institutions of a Non-State (1997), The Invisible Constitution of Politics: Contested Norms and International Encounters (Cambridge, 2008) and A Theory of Contestation (2014).

'This is an ambitious and interesting book which examines and theorizes about the different ways in which global norms are subject to contestation  - objected to as well as critically engaged with - by a variety of stakeholders across different settings. The three case studies of UN targeted sanctions (with a focus on the Kadi case), the prohibition against torture (with a focus on the Rumsfeld case) and the prohibition on sexual violence against women during wartime, are rich and detailed. It should be of interest not just for international relations scholars and theorists, but international lawyers too.' Gráinne De Búrca, New York University

• 1. Whose practices count?; 2. Norms lie in the practice; 3. Normative structures and rules of engagement; 4. Transformative power: framing the co-constitution of normative change; 5. Making fundamental rights a global issue: the Kadi case and contested 'moral responsibility'; 6. Bringing on the torture convention: the Rumsfeld case and contested 'universal jurisdiction'; 7. Putting violence against women during wartime onto the global agenda: Resolution 1325 and the contested 'culture of impunity'; 8. A voice through the practice.