DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH - THE OXFORD HANDBOOKS of Constituent Power and Norms Research in International Relations

I N V I T A T I O N
Please be invited to the Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series - HPS³ in  Summer Semester 2026.
The HPS Seminar Series features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in all subfields of political science and political economy. 

We welcome Anthony Lang (Professor of International Political Theory. School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, Scotland) as critical discussant in the presentation of two new Oxford Handbooks by members of the Faculty: 

I. The Oxford Handbook of Norm Research in International Relations edited by Sassan Gholiagha, Phil Orchard, and Antje Wiener, OUP 2025

Norms research in International Relations (IR) has developed sufficiently over the past 35 years to become its own subdiscipline within the field. It has its own corresponding ‘toolbox’ of concepts, approaches, and methods, which have often resulted from debates representing distinct perspectives on how norms matter for IR as a field and for global IR more generally. …

II. The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power edited by Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg, and Lucia Rubinelli, OUP 2026

This volume examines a key notion in political and constitutional theory. Constituent power denotes the capacity and authority to make (democratic) constitutions. The concept plays a key role both in real-world processes of constitution-making and constitutional transformation and in their scholarly analyses. The handbook brings together ..

We thank the HPS3 for supporting us. 
For further information about dates and speakers in SuSe 26 please refer to the HPS³-Website.

All welcome