Alina Isakova is a doctoral researcher with the Research Training Group "World Politics" at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Malte Neuwinger is a doctoral researcher with the Research Training Group "World Politics" at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Robin Schulze Waltrup is a postdoctoral researcher with the Research Training Group "World Politics" at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Oday Uraiqat is a doctoral researcher with the Research Training Group "World Politics" at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Global Challenges in World Politics and Their Modes of Construction Part 2: Global Challenges avant la lettre: Historical Accounts 2. "Unequal Treaties": Challenging International Order in the 1920s 3. "Japan" and the Global Challenge of Modernity. Constellations of Social-Scientific Discourses on Modernity in the Twentieth Century Part 3: Global Challenges in the Discursive Arena 4. Practices of Global Challenging: A Historical Perspective and Preliminary Typology 5. Talking the Challenges Talk: Understanding the Global Challenges Discourse's Multiple Meanings, or Lack Thereof Part 4: Global Challenges, Nation-States and Multilevel Governance 6. States' Framing of Mass Atrocity Crimes: From Introducing to Preserving the Responsibility to Protect 7. Constructing the Challenge of Governance in the Arctic: Colonial, Alliance, and Global Concerns across Time 8. Upscaling climate change-Glocalizing governance Part 5: Global Challenges and International Organizations 9. Securitization, Expansion, Integration: Tracing Shifts in the UN's Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism as a "Global Challenge" 10. International Organizations and the Construction of Complex Global Security Challenges 11. The OECD, Global Challenges, and Contestation of the Economic Growth Paradigm 12. Global Challenges and Opportunities? Active Aging, Intergenerational Solidarity, and the Informal Care Nexus Part 6: Conclusion 13. Global Challenges, Global Contestations, and the Reproduction of Global Orders