Editors

Series Editor
  • Antje Wiener

About the Editor

Antje Wiener is Professor for Political Science & Global Governance at the University of Hamburg. Currently, Antje Wiener holds a two year Opus Magnum Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation (2015-2017). The research project is titled “Normativity, Diversity and Cosmopolitan Contestation: International Relations as Intercultural Relations”. In the spring she will be a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and in the Michaelmas term she will be a Visiting Fellow at thePolitical Science & Global Governance at the University of Cambridge. 
Antje Wiener was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in the United Kingdom in 2011. She received her PhD in Political Science from Carleton University, Canada in 1996 and her MA (DiplPol) in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin in 1989. Prior to coming to Germany in 2009 she taught in Canada, the US and the UK, where she held Chairs of Political Science and International Relations at the Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Bath. 
Her research and teaching interests are in International Relations Theories (IR) especially Norms Research, Contestation Research, Global Governance and Global Constitutionalism. She has served as Managing Director of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG) in Hamburg in 2009-10 and 2011-12, and currently leads the CGG’s Research Area 4 on “Global Constitutionalism, Governance and World Society”; and is founding editor of Global Constitutionalism: Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Cambridge since 2012). Her latest single-authored book is A Theory of Contestation (Springer 2014)