Description
Since the end of the cold war, in 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has proved to be the
most substantive threat to the longevity of the current liberal international order. This
Revanchist attempt by Russia undermines the foundations of the underlying constitutive
order and has exposed deep fractures in the international system. State responses to this
global inflection point can be summarized into three broad categories: first, opposition to
Russia exemplified by America and its enduring allies; second, solidarity with Russia
exhibited by targets of adversarial western policies such as China and North Korea; and third, passive neutralism and active non alignment endorsed by countries in the global south such as India and Indonesia. Given that this third category of states does not represent a coherent confederacy with a unified agenda. Why has America and the pacific federation failed to generate a consensus on the fundamental issue of the legitimacy of using force to change borders despite the affinity of post-colonial states towards the Westphalian order and its attendant values of equality and non-interference. Moreover, why is American coalition building in the Global south failing to materialize into more expansive notions of support?
