Seeing Beyond the Core: Alternative visions of order in times of global crisis

As the Liberal International Order faces an accelerating crisis of legitimacy – marked by escalating tariff wars, militarism, and inequalities – new questions are emerging about the state and future of a rapidly changing world order. To date, most of these conversations have centred the global North. This event takes a different path: it explores how the current moment looks when viewed from across the global South, recognising these perspectives as diverse and essential, not uniform and secondary.

Engaging with long-standing debates about how knowledge in International Relations is produced, the event asks: Who gets to define world order and under what conditions? Informed by postcolonial, decolonial, and non-Western approaches, the discussion will highlight limits of dominant frameworks used to understand present global political fault lines, as well as open up new ways of thinking about what the future of world order might look like.

Meet our speakers

Dr Ilias Alami is Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development in the Centre of Development Studies, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Lina Benabdallah is McCulloch Family Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the department of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University. Her book Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations was published in 2020 by Michigan Press University.

Dr Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history, and the politics of empire, race and knowledge production.

Dr Jenna Marshall is Lecturer in International Studies at King's College London. Jenna completed her PhD at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), where she explored Pan-African social movements and political contestations of development agendas in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Discussant

Dr Giulia Sciorati is an LSE Fellow in China and the Global South, in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

Chair

Dr Shikha Dilawri is LSE Fellow in International Relations Theory in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

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