The Russia-Ukraine War and the Seeds of a New Liberal Plurilateral Order

Authors

David L. Sloss, Santa Clara University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2022

Publisher

Cambridge University Press for The American Society of International Law

Abstract

Since about 2008, the rise of autocracy and the decline of democracy has threatened the modern liberal international order. To counter the threat of authoritarian international law, the United States should collaborate with liberal democracies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to develop new plurilateral institutions and treaties to create a “liberal plurilateral order.” This Essay shows that states are planting the seeds of a future liberal plurilateral order in their response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Comments

This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Recommended Citation

Sloss, D. L., & Dickinson, L. A. (2022). The Russia-Ukraine War and the Seeds of a New Liberal Plurilateral Order. American Journal of International Law, 116(4), 798–809. https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2022.55