The School of International Relations welcomes Professor Antje Wiener as Honorary Professor

The School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews is pleased to welcome Professor Antje Wiener as Honorary Professor for the period 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2029. Professor 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, and is an elected By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Professor Wiener is internationally recognised for her contributions to IR theory, particularly in the areas of norms research and contestation theory. She is the founding editor, alongside James Tully, of Global Constitutionalism and editor-in-chief of the Springer Series on Norm Research in International Relations. She received the International Law Section’s Annual Book Award (ISA) for Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations (CUP 2018).

Her recent co-edited publications include Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice (CUP 2024), Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order (OUP 2026), The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory (OUP 2026), and The Oxford Handbook of Norms in International Relations (OUP 2025).