Introduction to the debate section: understanding contemporary challenges to the global order.

Many observers of contemporary global politics conclude that the present moment represents one of the most unsettled times in global politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Hofmann therefore clarify our understanding of "the global order" and offer a pared-down conceptualization: a multilateral, rules-based order comprised of states as the primary actors that promotes economic liberalism. Goodman and Schimmelfennig then tackle the politics of migration, an increasingly salient policy field that spans the national and international dimensions of the contemporary crisis. [Extracted from the article]