Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting the New Modes of Governance

Alejandro Esguerra is a post-doctoral researcher with the research group ‘Wicked Problems, Contested Administration: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy’ at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His work is concerned with the role of knowledge in international relations theory, transnational private governance, and epistemic authority in global environmental politics.

Nicole Helmerich is a post-doctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. Her work revolves around the role of business in transnational governance, transnational private regulation, corporate responsibility, transnational workers’ rights, and good corporate governance.

Thomas Risse is Professor of International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 'Governance of Areas of Limited Statehood' and co-director of the Research College 'Transformative Power of Europe', both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).