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Contested world order: The delegitimation of international governance
This article argues that the chief challenge to international governance is an emerging political cleavage, which pits nationalists against immigration, free trade, and international authority. While those on the radical left contest international governance for its limits, nationalists reject it in principle. A wide-ranging cultural and economic reaction has reshaped political conflict in Europe and the United States and is putting into question the legitimacy of the rule of law among states
For a public international relations
The last few years have seen an opening up of what is considered to be the legitimate terrain of international relations (IR). This move is, for the most part, extremely welcome. Yet, the multiple theoretical and empirical openings in IR since the end of the Cold War have failed to elucidate many of the puzzles, questions and problems posed by the contemporary conjuncture. There are a number of reasons for this failure ranging from the stickiness of Cold War problem fields to IRâs continued attachment to systemic-level theories. However, this article focuses less on symptoms than on treatment and, in particular, on how generating a more âpublicâ international relations enterprise might help to connect IR with the core theoretical, empirical and normative terrain of âactually existingâ world politics. Taking its cue from recent debates in sociology about how to generate a âpublic sociology,â the article lays out three pathologies that a public IR enterprise should avoid and four ground rulesâamounting to a manifesto of sortsâwhich sustain the case for a âpublicâ international relations