The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century Conceptions, Components, and Tensions

Tanja A. Börzel, Professor of Political Science and European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin,Johannes Gerschewski, Interim Professor in Political Theory and History of Ideas, Leibniz University Hannover,Michael Zürn, Professor of International Relations, Freie Universität Berlin

Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair for European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. She is the director of the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS).

Johannes Gerschewski is Interim Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at Leibniz University Hannover. He is also the academic coordinator of the Theory Network at the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS).

Michael Zürn is Director of the Global Governance research unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin.

1. Introduction: The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Tanja A. Börzel, Johannes Gerschewski, and Michael Zürn2. The Liberal Script: A Reconstruction, Michael Zürn and Johannes Gerschewski3. Considering the Coloniality of the Liberal Script: Post- and Decolonial Perspectives, Ina Kerner4. On the Government of Liberty: Writing the Liberal Script into Action, Friederike Kuntz5. The Liberal Border Script and its Contestations: An Attempt at Definition and Systematization, Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards6. Order-Making through Contestations: The Liberal International Order and its Many (Co-)Authors, Thomas Risse7. Reallocation: Neoliberal Scripts and the Transformation of Capitalism and Democracy, Vivien A. Schmidt8. Modernity, Empire, Progress: Historical and Global Perspectives on Temporality in the 19th-Century Liberal Script, Alexandra Paulin-Booth9. Publicity and Privacy: Two Contemporary Challenges to the Liberal Script, Jan-Werner Müller10. The Rule of Law in the Liberal Script: Central Commitments, Variations, and Contestations, Mattias Kumm11. Temporality and Liberal Constitutionalism, Philipp Dann12. Problems with Merit in the Liberal Economy, Stefan Gosepath13. Global Liberalism and Women's Rights, Julia C. Lerch and Francisco O. Ramirez14. Beyond "Liberal Education": Education and the Liberal Script, Marcelo Caruso and Florian Waldow15. Peripheral Liberalism: New Perspectives on the Liberal Script in the (Post-) Socialist World, Kevin Axe, Tobias Rupprecht, and Alice Trinkle16. Liberal Rationality and its Unacknowledged Commitments: The Case of Rational Policymaking for Peace and Development, Anne Menzel17. Better than the "Liberal Peace"? Brazilian Peacekeeping between Post-colonial Branding and Violent Order-Making, Markus-Michel Müller and Izadora Xavier do Monte18. Liberal Script and its Populist Contestations in India: Reflections on Politics and Policy, Amit Prakash19. Durability and Disruption: The Indeterminate Potential of the Liberal Script, Michael Freeden