Workshop UN @ 70 Podcast1 Final

In a global order that seems more volatile and uncertain than ever, multilateralism is often considered as mere fancy. That multilateralism matters, however, is not an argument that needs to be made, but too often its existence and even the need for it tends to get subsumed in more mainstream discourses of Realpolitik. Our workshop follows the panel discussion on Saturday, 24th October, and is based on the extensive new research of our participants. Despite concerns of ‘Southern’ hostility towards the West, aspirations for liberal multilateralism existed in 1945 and exist even in the fractured contemporary global order. In other words, multilateralism does indeed matter. The revised papers from the workshop will appear as a special issue of the Third World Quarterly in 2016.