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Is the ‘liberal’ post-WWII international order dying? Fractures Session 2
What was the promise and reality of the liberal order? Did it deserve to die? What is the future for international law and multilateralism? What will replace it? What should we demand in its place?
- Aslı Ü. Bâli, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School
- Shahd Hammouri, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights/University of Kent - Jomo Kwame Sundaram, former assistant secretary-general at UN-DESA
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00:00 Introduction by Shaun Matsheza
02:45 Asli on structural flaws in international order
11:04 Shahd on tensions within international order
14:25 Shahd on experience of being a Palestinian lawyer in a UN legal system
19:15 Jomo on impact of fractured order on the Global South
23:15 Shahd on historic push for decolonised global order
26:17 Asli on what a decolonised order could look like
34:14 Jomo on need for realism and alliances to move forward
36:25 Asli on risks in this moment
38:06 Shahd on struggles and choices in a contradictory system
45:34 Shahd on the Hague Group
