Geopolitics

End of multilateralism?

Cover of the magazine “Questions internationales”: “Collective insecurity - The crisis of multilateralism”.

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By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

1 min

The specter of the end of multilateralism has been brandished with each crisis for several years, to believe that the new global challenges no longer have collective responses that can be brought to them.

Does this mean that multilateralism has lost its effectiveness or rather that the great powers prefer unilateralism to it? 

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Peaceful consultation between at least three States within a framework defined in common, multilateralism, a central phenomenon of international relations, is today experiencing a multidimensional crisis, reflecting a world in pieces.

Crisis of traditional alliances between states.

Renewal of power competitions.

Does multilateralism still have a future?

On the occasion of the publication of « Nations Désunies?

The crisis of multilateralism in international relations” which has just been published by CNRS, Biblis collection.

(Replay)

Our guests :

  • Bertrand Badie,

    Emeritus Professor of Universities at Sciences Po Paris.  

  • Jean-Vincent Holliner,

     professor of political science at the University of Paris Panthéon Assas.

    Co-director of the French Directory of International Relations of the Center Thucydide.

    And Scientific Director of IRSEM.

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