Trine Flockhart is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Co-Director of the Center for War Studies at SDU. She is Chair of Business and Social Science at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study and series editor for the Palgrave series, Governance, Security and Development. Her research focuses on international order and transformational change, constructivism, ontological security, NATO, European Security, the liberal international order (and its crisis), transatlantic relations and multi-order governance. She is currently working on a monograph on the transformation towards a multi-order world.Zachary Paikin is Researcher in the EU Foreign Policy unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels and a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD) in Toronto. He is also a member of the Network for Strategic Analysis, funded by the Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) programme of the Department of National Defence of Canada. His research interests centre on English School theory, international order, great power relations, Euro-Atlantic security, Russian foreign policy and Canadian foreign policy. His recent publications include ‘Through thick and thin: Russia, China and the future of Eurasian International Society’, International Politics 58(3) 2021 and ‘Great power rivalry and the weakening of collective hegemony: revisiting the relationship between international society and international order’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 34(1) 2021. Paikin holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Rebooting Global International Society (Zachary Paikin and Trine Flockhart).- Part 1: Theory and Concepts.- Chapter 2: Theorizing Change in the English School (Trine Flockhart).- Chapter 3: Contestation in Global International Society (Zachary Paikin).- Chapter 4: Resilience in Global International Society (Elena Korosteleva and Irina Petrova).- Chapter 5: The Relationship between Primary and Secondary Institutions: Theorizing Institutional Change (Tonny Brems Knudsen).- Part 2: Institutions.- Chapter 6: Sovereignty Is Dead, Long Live Sovereignty (Christian Reus-Smit).- Chapter 7: The Balance of Power and the Independence of Nations (Morten Skumsrud Andersen), etc.