Research areas
- Antje Wiener holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg where she is also a professor at the Law Faculty. She is an elected By-Fellow at Hughes Hall University of Cambridge as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Member of the Academia Europaea. Her research centres on International Relations (IR) theory especially norms research and contestation theory.
- Current DFG-funded research focuses on Varieties of Climate Agency (CLICCS II, S3 w Stefan Aykut) and on the UN’s Contested Security Promise Norm (PROMISE). Previously she held Chairs in International Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Bath, and also taught at the Universities of Stanford, Carleton, Sussex, and Hannover.
- With James Tully, she is founding editor of Global Constitutionalism which has been published with Cambridge University Press since 2012, and since 2019 she is editor-in-chief of the Springer Series on Norm Research in International Relations. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Global International Relations Section at the International Studies Association (ISA).
- Her most recent publications include Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice (CUP 2024, with P Orchard), Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order (OUP 2026 w T Risse and D A Lake), The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory (OUP 2026 w B Ackerly, L Cabrera, M Deveaux, F Forman, G Fuji Johnson and Starblanket, and The Oxford Handbook of Norms in International Relations (OUP 2025 w S Gholiagha and P Orchard). She received the International Law Section’s Annual Book Award (ISA) for Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations (CUP 2018).
Selected publications
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Open access
Wiener, A., 19 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) Deep contestations of the liberal international order. Wiener, A., Lake, D. A. & Risse, T. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 25-49
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Wiener, A. (Editor), Lake, D. (Editor) & Risse, T. (Editor), 19 Feb 2026, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 297 p. (Scripts)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Aykut, S. C. & Wiener, A., Jun 2026, In: Earth System Governance. 28, p. 1-11 11 p., 100322.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Holley, J., Wiener, A., Birdsall, A., Law, S., Kang, S. & Shaw, J., 10 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Constitutionalism. 15, 1, p. 1-10 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Open access
Lake, D. A. & Wiener, A., 19 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) Deep contestations of the liberal international order. Wiener, A., Lake, D. A. & Risse, T. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-24
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Stellungnahme Aus der Wissenschaft & Wiener, A., 17 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) Verfassungsblog.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Wiener, A., Ackerly, B. (Editor), Cabrera, L. (Editor), Forman, F. (Editor), Deveaux, M., Fuji Johnson, G. & Silverblanket, G. (Editor), 8 May 2026, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 588 p. (Oxford handbooks)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Wiener, A., 8 Jul 2026, In: International Affairs. 102, 4, p. 1437-1439 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Wiener, A., 18 Dec 2025, The Oxford handbook of norms research in international relations. Gholiagha, S., Orchard, P. & Wiener, A. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 447-457 (Oxford handbooks).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Wiener, A., Shaw, J., Havercroft, J., Kang, S. & Law, S., 3 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Constitutionalism. 14, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review