Polarization and Deep Contestations

Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair for European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. She is the director of the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS). Her most recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (co-edited with Thomas Risse; OUP 2016) and Why Noncompliance. The Politics of Law in the European Union (Cornell University Press 2021).Thomas Risse is Senior Professor and Director of the Berlin International Research and Training College at the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS) at Freie Universität Berlin. He is co-editor of the 75th anniversary issue of International Organization (2021) and co-author, with Tanja A. Börzel, of Effective Governance Under Anarchy. Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood (Cambridge University Press 2021). He has taught in the US at the universities of Cornell, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, and Wyoming, and in Europe at the University of Konstanz and the European University Institute.Stephanie B. Anderson is Professor of Political Science and Head of the School of Politics, Public Affairs & International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She has won two Fulbright awards and held fellowships at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Freie Universität Berlin, the EU Centre in Singapore, and the University of Basel in Switzerland. She is the author of two books as well as articles in several journals and edited volumes including Armed Forces and Society, The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Affairs, and European Foreign Affairs Review.Jean A. Garrison is Professor of Political Science and International Studies in the School of Politics, Public Affairs, & International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of three books and numerous articles focusing on American foreign policy, energy security, and US-China relations. She currently serves as co-director of the Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program. In addition, she has served as a senior fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and a fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington, DC, and she is also the past recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship.

• 1: Tanja A. Börzel, Thomas Risse, Stephanie B. Anderson, and Jean A. Garrison: Introduction: Polarization and Deep Contestations of the Liberal Script in the USPart I. Setting the Stage: American Liberalism and Populism2: Jan-Werner Müller: Is There Still a Liberal Public Sphere in the US? Was There Ever One?3: Hans-Jürgen Puhle: Varieties of Populism in the US: Exceptional, Mainstream, or Model?Part II. Polarization and Contestations of Liberalism in the US4: Andrew Garner: Polarization and Contestation of the Liberal Script in US Politics5: Robert E. Benson: The Supreme Court of the US and the Liberal Script6: Marcia Pally: When is White Evangelical Politics Illiberal? The Effects of Duress and Strong Populism on the Liberal Script7: Omar H. Ali: Independent Black Political Movements: African Americans Contesting the Liberal Script8: Peter Parolin: Theatre as a Barometer of Contestation: The Case of Julius Caesar in Central Park, 2017Part III. Still a Global Leader? Contestations of US Foreign Policy9: Lora Anne Viola: Accounting for Illiberalism in American Liberal Internationalism10: Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse: Is America Back? Contestations, US Foreign Policy, and the Liberal International Order11: Stephanie B. Anderson and Jean A. Garrison: The Public's Commitment toward US Leadership of the Liberal International Order12: Maria Celia Toro and Ana Covarrubias: Deep Contestations of the Liberal Script at the US-Mexican Border: The Cases of Free Trade and Human Rights13: Michael Zürn: A Conclusion: The American Version of the Liberal Script, or How Exceptionalism Leads to Exceptionalism