Gemeinschaft as the lynchpin of multilateralism: world order and the challenge of multipolarity

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dc.contributor.authorButler, Seán
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-27T09:22:40Z
dc.date.available2019-05-27T09:22:40Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-05-27T09:11:54Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper seeks to understand the impact of the ongoing shifts in global politics upon the operation of international law. Specifically, it examines how a re-configuration of global political power from a ‘unipolar’ system dominated by the US to a ‘multipolar’ system in which the US will need to share the apex of the international political power structure with rising states will affect the operation and evolution of the international legal system, with a particular focus upon how the present architecture of institutional multilateralism will interact with and guide these developments. It will be argued that the alterations that the rising states wish to make to the present international order – a rejection of universalist projects associated with US hegemony and a re-entrenchment of Westphalian sovereignty – will prove difficult to realise in the present institutional structure, due to the operational logic of multilateralism. Furthermore, the tension that will arise between this normative project and the structural obstacles it faces will threaten the world’s ability to tackle a series of collective action problems, the most problematic of which would be the maintenance of collective security. A multipolar world thus has the potential to be a much more unstable and chaotic world than any experienced since the end of World War II.en
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dc.identifier.citationButler, S. (2018) 'Gemeinschaft as the lynchpin of multilateralism: world order and the challenge of multipolarity', Irish Studies in International Affairs, 29, pp. 17-34. doi: 10.3318/isia.2018.29.09en
dc.identifier.doi10.3318/isia.2018.29.09en
dc.identifier.endpage34en
dc.identifier.issn0332-1460
dc.identifier.issn2009-0072
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Studies in International Affairsen
dc.identifier.startpage17en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7979
dc.identifier.volume29en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoyal Irish Academyen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/isia.2018.29.09
dc.rights© 2018, Royal Irish Academy. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectGlobal politicsen
dc.subjectInternational lawen
dc.subjectUnipolaren
dc.subjectMultipolaren
dc.subjectInstitutional multilateralismen
dc.subjectCollective securityen
dc.subjectMultilateralismen
dc.subjectGemeinschaften
dc.titleGemeinschaft as the lynchpin of multilateralism: world order and the challenge of multipolarityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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