Why South Africa Should Be Concerned - A World Without Rules

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South Africa has had its Budget Speech and State of the Nation Address. Now the real question is: what kind of world are we governing in?

Justice Malala and Mondli Makhanya unpack the widening war involving Israel, Iran and the United States and what the open embrace of assassinations, regime change and brute force means for international law. Is the rules-based global order collapsing? If the bully wins, what stops other powers from doing the same?

They examine the implications for Ukraine, Sudan and the African continent and ask what this era of “might makes right” means for South Africa’s foreign policy and moral standing.

From global war to global disorder this episode asks a difficult question:

If there are no rules anymore, who holds power accountable?

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10 Mar English South Africa Society & Culture · Government

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