Contested World Orders

Matthew D. Stephen is Senior Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. From 2018 to 2019, he was Interim Professor for Political Science at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg and Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg. He also lectures part time at the Stanford University Berlin Program. His research concentrates on international power shifts and international institutions. Michael Zürn is Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Professor of International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well of the European Academy and was the founding rector of the Hertie School of Governance. His research examines governance beyond the nation state, and the legitimacy and authority of global governance institutions. He has - among other themes - most extensively written on the emergence and functioning of inter- and supranational institutions, as well as on the normative tensions and political conflicts that these developments unfold.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1: Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn: Rising Powers, NGOs and Demands for New World Orders: An IntroductionPart 1 - World Economic Orders2: Matthew D. Stephen: Contestation Overshoot: Rising Powers, NGOs and the Failure of the WTO Doha Round,3: Alexandros Tokhi: The Contestation of the IMF4: Dirk Peters: Exclusive Club Under Stress: The G7 between Rising Powers and Non-state Actors after the Cold WarPart 2 - World Security Orders5: Anja Jetschke and Pascal Abb: The Devil is in the Detail: The Positions of the BRICS Countries towards UN Security Council Reform and the Responsibility to Protect6: Harald Müller and Alexandros Tokhi: The Contestation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation RegimePart 3 - Human Rights and Environment7: Martin Binder and Sophie Eisentraut: Negotiating the UN Human Rights Council: Rising powers, established powers and NGOs8: Miriam Prys-Hansen, Kristina Hahn, Malte Lellmann, and Milan Röseler: Contestation in the UNFCCC: The Case of Climate FinancePart 4 - Cross-Cutting Cases9: Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Annegret Flohr, and Klaus Dieter Wolf: Transnational Private Authority and Its Contestation10: Martin Binder and Autumn Lockwood Payton: Cleavages in World Politics. Analysing Rising Power Voting Behaviour in the UN General Assembly11: Michael Zürn, Klaus Dieter Wolf, and Matthew D. Stephen: Conclusion: Contested World Orders-Continuity or Change?Index

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