Networks and Ordering in (Inter)National Politics

In view of rapid changes and multiple crises in domestic and global politics, scholars have engaged in vibrant debates about the emergence, characteristics, and transformation of political orders. A number of recent studies such as Francis Fukujama’s two-volume study on the origins and decay of political order, Ned Lebow’s “Rise and Fall or Political Order” or Emanuel Alder’s “World Ordering” indicate this renewed interest in questions of political order(ing). A number of studies such as those by Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink’s on transnational norm entrepreneurs or Anne-Marie Slaughter’s on transgovernmental networks have identified networks as the key players in the creation and transformation of political orders. The Section seeks to foster exchange between political sociology and international relations on theoretical and empirical questions related to ordering and networks. In particular, it seeks to finds answers to the question of how networks shape ordering in national and international politics. The Section welcomes Panels and Papers that address the role of networks in the diffusion of knowledge and practices across different orders as well as in the (de)contestation of norms and institution within orders. It invites scholars from diverse theoretical and methodological backgrounds. Panels could address topics such as the role of networks in interrelations between orders, norm contestation in the field of human rights, transnational mobilization on topics of security and (dis)armament, climate change, migration, sexual orientation and gender, and the claims and strategies of principled issue networks incl. religious actors. Planned Panels (Paper submissions may relate to any of these, but can also propose new topics) • Panel 1 "Theorizing Networks and Ordering in (Inter)National Relations” (Chair: Martin Senn) • Panel 2 “Networks and Ordering in (trans)national promotion and contestation of SOGI-rights (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity)” (Chair: Kristina Stoeckl) • Panel 3 “Networks and Ordering in security and diplomacy” (Chair: Markus Kornprobst) • Panel 4 “Principled issue networks and norm contestation in the field of human rights” (Chair: Julia Mourao Permoser)