Antje Wiener

Dr Antje Wiener obtained her PhD in Political Science at Carleton University, Canada (1996) and an MA in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin (1989). She was awarded a personal chair at Queen’s University Belfast in 2002 and membership of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK in 2011.

She currently holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg where she is also a member of the Research Council of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance. Before coming to Hamburg in 2009 she was a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bath and a Professor of International Studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast.

She is a founding editor of Global Constitutionalism and associate editor of the European Political Science Review, and has published numerous books on international relations theory and European integration.

Her research interests are in international relations theory, global constitutionalism, international political theory and international law. Dr Wiener's current research projects focus on global constitutionalism, fisheries governance, global citizenship and the concept of community in the global realm.