Video: Antje Wiener on the ‘Constitution of the World’Prof Wiener speaks in Bad Homburg about Pathways to Participation: On the Resilience of the UN Charter Order

9 October 2025

Antje Wiener spoke in Bad Homburg on 19 September about the resilience of the UN Charter order. The Bad Homburg Conference offers an annual public forum for reflection on important contemporary social issues. This year, the debate focused on the relationship between law and power in international politics: in view of current wars and conflicts, power-political instruments such as military force and economic pressure seem to be increasingly replacing the international legal order.

Against this backdrop, experts from various disciplines were invited on 19 September to discuss the role of the international legal order under the title ‘The Constitution of the World – Power and Law in International Politics’ – in particular the question of how the UN's demand to secure peace through law and outlaw war as a legitimate means of politics can be implemented in the future. Contributions to the discussion were made by Michael Zürn (Freie Universität Berlin), Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg), Thilo Marauhn (PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt), Christopher Daase (PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt), Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Isabelle Ley (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Nicole Deitelhoff (PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt), Gunther Hellmann (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Research College for the Humanities) and can be found on the YouTube channel of the Research College for the Humanities in Bad Homburg: https://www.youtube.com/@FKHbadhomburg . (Text: PRIF, UHH)