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This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted.

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1. Global Orders: Contestation and Transition 2. Order Transition, Systemic Legitimacy and Institutionalization 3. Order Transition in a Hybrid Environment 4. Order Transition, Common Culture and Exceptional Worldviews 5. Order Transition and Effectiveness 6. Renegotiating the Security-related Rules of Global Order 7. Renegotiating the Environmental Rules of Global Order 8. Renegotiating the Ideology-related Aspects of Global Order 9. Conclusion: The Politics of Sovereignty and the Failure of the Global Governance Concept

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Maximilian Terhalle is a senior research fellow at the University of Potsdam, where he holds a scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Previously, he conducted research and taught at Columbia, Oxford, Yale, and Cornell Universities, and his research interests include US-China relations and theories of global order. Maximilian has published in Security Studies, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, International Studies Perspectives and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen.

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