/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor

On "non-hegemony" and world disorder.

Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose contents have been hollowed out.

• What is "multilateralism"? Why is it an important concept to capture the US-led order that is now falling apart?

• If multilateralism was always in crisis, what is new today?

• Is the emerging (dis)order multipolar or apolar? What's the difference?

• Is multilateralism the historic exception that we wrongly take to be the norm? Why is there no going back to the post-1945 – or post-1991 – order?

• What are the prospects for a new hegemonic order? Isn’t prolonged chaos and decay more likely? 

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Links:

• Non-Hegemony, Tom Chodor, Jack Taggart and Ilias Alami, Phenomenal World

• /377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

• /357/ Lucky, Meaty Nations ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor