To the Rescue - Rupture and Resilience of the UN Charter Order: Antje Wiener at University of St AndrewsHybrid talk at Centre for Global Law and Governance

24 February 2026

On Wednesday, February 25th, 11 AM GMT, Prof Antje Wiener PhD will hold a talk at the University of St Andrews on the Rupture and Resilience of the UN Charter Order. 

The rule-based international legal order is under duress. Recent breaches of international law on behalf of members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council's permanent members represent deep contestations with potentially destructive consequences for the UN Charter Order. These ruptures raise issues about adequate political strategies of reaction (or retaliation) which are related with conceptual questions of the UNCO's resilience in the mid- and long-term. While a rule-based order faces predictable non-compliance with and violations of norms which are handled as a matter of routine, thereby documenting the liberal international order's resilience, the qualitative shift from ‘normal' to ‘deep' contestation cuts to the core in a potentially order- changing way. This raises novel questions about the resilience of the UNCO, and global order, more generally. 

You can find more information on the talk on the website of the University of St Andrews, and the link for joining the live stream here.