Thomas Risse
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Thomas Risse is senior professor and director of the Berlin International Research and Training College at the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His most recent publications include “Challenges to the Liberal International Order” (co-editor, 75th anniversary issue of International Organization, 2021) and Effective Governance Under Anarchy. Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood (Cambridge University Press, 2021, with Tanja A. Börzel). Risse received his MA at Bonn University and his PhD. in 1987 from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has taught in the U.S. at Cornell, Yale, Stanford, and Harvard universities as well as the University of Wyoming, in Europe at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His research interests include international relations theory, norms and transnational actors in world politics, governance in areas of limited statehood, European integration and European identity, as well as transatlantic relations, and the contemporary challenges to the liberal international order.