Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-state

This volume provides a novel institutionalist theoretical approach to the rise of new powers and NGOs in relation to international institutions. It reveals the major conflicts that characterise some key contemporary international institutions, such as the UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization, the G7, and the UN Human Rights Council.

Matthew D. Stephen, Senior Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center,Michael Zurn, Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Professor FU Berlin, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

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 Zurn is Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Professor of International Relations at the Freie Universitat 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.