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'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.' Grainne De Burca, New York University 'This book, an exemplar of global international relations, brings a provocative theoretical approach and rigorous methodology to the study of norms and normative change, taking account of local as well as global dynamics, powerless as well as powerful actors. Asking 'whose practices count' and 'who has access' to what types of contestation, Antje Wiener shows how normative change is always constituted in a multilogue among differently situated and unequal stakeholders.' Jacqui True, Monash University, Australia At a time when liberal assumptions of community and shared values are under siege and diverse actors compete for influence, Antje Wiener's book on norm dynamics in global international relations couldn't be more topical. Wiener maps out a multi-focus lens for analyzing the processes and actors that account for norm stability and norm change in global affairs. Building on her pioneering work on norms and contestation, and engaging current debates in IR scholarship on practices, norm robustness and actor diversity, she presents an overarching, finely grained framework for understanding local and global co-constitution of norms. Three carefully chosen case studies demonstrate the value of a framework that can focus on multiple sites of engagement, and illuminate when and why different types of norms are generated and re-generated, and whose practices and contestations matter. An important contribution!' Jutta Brunnee, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto

Advance praise: '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.' Grainne De Burca, New York University Advance praise: 'This book, an exemplar of global international relations, brings a provocative theoretical approach and rigorous methodology to the study of norms and normative change, taking account of local as well as global dynamics, powerless as well as powerful actors. Asking 'whose practices count' and 'who has access' to what types of contestation, Antje Wiener shows how normative change is always constituted in a multilogue among differently situated and unequal stakeholders.' Jacqui True, Monash University, Australia

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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).

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