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Antje Wiener
@antjewiener.bsky.social

Prof PoliSci & Law University of Hamburg - International Relations Norm Research Contestation Theory By-Fellow Hughes Hall Cambridge - Editor Global Constitutionalism
CUP
FUBerlin, Stanford, Carleton
⛵️RYA YM Ocean 🥋4th kyu
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Antje Wiener is a German political scientist and international relations scholar. Since 2009, she has held the chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg. With her research, Wiener contributes to international relations theory, critical constructivist norms research, and contestation theory. Empirically, her research focusses on human rights and the rule of law in both a European and a global context. She has also investigated the contestation and constitution of the prohibition of sexual violence, the international prohibition of torture, and various norms of international security governance. .. more

Political science 75%
Law 8%
Details of my book launch are now available - everyone welcome. It will be hybrid for those not in London and recorded.
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Defending the Political Constitution: A Book Launch of Richard Bellamy’s latest book
This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Does Anas Sarwar actually want Starmer to resign; or does he want it to be put on record, for the minutes, that he has said he should resign?
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com

„Lang was mentioned more than 600 times in the files, according to news agencies. His daughter was also repeatedly mentioned.
Caroline Lang resigned this week from France’s Union of Independent Producers after the emails showed she had founded an offshore company with Epstein in 2016“.

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Today’s readings.
Both highly recommended!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
„The reaction was shown on Canadian broadcaster CBC’s feed, with one commentator saying: “There is the vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha – oops, those are not … uh … those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”“
#Italy2026 #Olympics
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com

Wendy Brown on #ReparativeDemocracy
„Political equality in a reparative mode must be responsive to deep histories of inequalities and violences—racial, gendered, regional, hemispheric, and between human and nonhuman—that bear on discursive norms and agendas in democratic spheres.“

🙏🏻 4 sharing, Cas!

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Looking forward to seeing the interview with Wendy Brown at Södertörn University today. This is an interesting interview from October 2024.
The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy
A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.
www.bostonreview.net

Congratulations, dear Duncan!!
NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

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Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
„Underscoring the tightrope Sheinbaum is walking, her vow to keep sending humanitarian aid to Cuba drew strong praise from Morena senators and an immediate backlash in Washington.“
#Cuba
Mexico’s president pledges to send aid to Cuba despite US efforts to cut oil access
Move from Claudia Sheinbaum comes after Trump signed an order threatening tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba
www.theguardian.com

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/fort...
#KissofDeath
„Der Demokrat Rehmet hat diese Nachwahl (…) mit 14 Prozentpunkten Vorsprung (gewonnen) und hat Wambsganss damit regelrecht deklassiert. Reaktionen in US-Medien changierten zwischen einem „Schock“ für die Republikaner und einer „Demütigung“ für Trump.“
Texas: Demokrat Rehmet gewinnt überraschend Nachwahl - wegen Trump?
Der Demokrat Taylor Rehmet besiegt die Republikanerin Leigh Wambsganss im texanischen Senat mit 14 Prozentpunkten. Wegen Trump?
www.sueddeutsche.de
Liam and his dad are finally free and on their way back home to Minnesota.

They never should have been kidnapped in the first place.

abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release
A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.
abcnews.go.com

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⚠️ Achtung Sprache

Der Begriff „Kinderschänder“ suggeriert, über Kinder werde Schande gebracht. Er verschiebt die Perspektive vom erlittenen Unrecht auf moralische Beschmutzung und verschweigt, was Kindern tatsächlich angetan wurde: sexualisierte Gewalt, Ausbeutung und Machtmissbrauch.

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Causation of harm does not have to be proven to establish breach of an international obligation if compensation is not the aim. This declaration which might still be useful for the applicant state says Dr Callisto Harris at the ITLOS

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An omission of a State may well be a cause of significant harm even if that state cause not all but a substantial part of the harm says @uvalawschool.bsky.social’s Prof André Nollkamper in his review of the ICJ AO at the ITLOS Climate Conference.

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Attribution science has greatly enhanced our understanding of international climate responsibility says Prof Patricia Galvao Teles at the ITLOS.

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„Die Zuspitzung der Angriffe auf die offene Gesellschaft durch Trump und Putin erschwert das Geschäft der rechtsextremen Parteien. Nun sehen alle, was Remigration in der Praxis bedeutet. (…) Der kanadische Premier (…) erklärt wohin die Reise geht.“
@nminkmar.bsky.social 👍🏻
Dialektik im Winter
Europa ist noch nicht wach, aber gähnt schon/Ford Valentinstag/ Serie “The Danish Woman”/Houellebecq im Interview/Doku “Das Mädchen mit den goldenen Haaren”/ ungesundes…
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Holding warming to 1.5c requires net negative emissions not just net-zero which would also future proof climate law over the long term says @iucnwcel.bsky.social’s Prof Christina Voigt at the ITLOS Climate Conference.

Five classes from college

1. The UN Women‘s Decade
2. Latin American Literature
3: History of the Women‘s Movement
4: Development Theories
5: Structures and Ruptures of World Order
Five classes from college:

1. Beethoven
2. Biblical Origin Stories
3. French Through Film
4. Race, Inequality and Justice
5. Intro to Wines
Five classes from college:

1. Dinosaurs and their Relatives
2. African American Freedom Narratives
3. The Body in Ancient Greece
4. Collapses of Past Societies and Lessons for Our Future
5. Good & Evil in Tolkien's The Hobbit
Five classes from college:

1. Beethoven
2. Biblical Origin Stories
3. French Through Film
4. Race, Inequality and Justice
5. Intro to Wines
Five classes from college:

1. Dinosaurs and their Relatives
2. African American Freedom Narratives
3. The Body in Ancient Greece
4. Collapses of Past Societies and Lessons for Our Future
5. Good & Evil in Tolkien's The Hobbit
Five classes from college:

1. Honors Analysis in R with Paul Sally
2. Religion in Western Civilization with Jonathan Z. Smith
3. American Landscapes with Neil Harris
4. American Literature and Culture 1776-1855 with Laura Rigal
5. History Made Difficult with Peter Novick

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Interested in getting the Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations that I co-edited with @sassangholiagha.bsky.social Gholiagha and @antjewiener.bsky.social ?
OUP is providing a 30% discount when ordered from them using the code AUFLY30: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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New book OPEN ACCESS
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This chapter introduces #deepcontestation and explains the distinction between normal contestation, which permits gradual adaptation, and deep contestation, which rejects foundational norms and threatens systemic stability.
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Introduction: Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order
Abstract. This introductory chapter examines the Liberal International Order (LIO), its evolution since the Second World War, and its present state of deep
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Thrilled to share this: An alternative macrohistory of the LIO and the emerging decentered world order. Many thanks to the editors, David Lake, Thomas Risse, and especially @antjewiener.bsky.social! Open access: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

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Please feel free to access The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations edited by @sassangholiagha.bsky.social @philorchard.bsky.social @antjewiener.bsky.social
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The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations
Abstract. Norms research in International Relations (IR) has developed sufficiently over the past 35 years to become its own subdiscipline within the field
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