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BRICS, Gaza, and graveyard of international law

October 30, 2024

MANILA – By all indications, we live in an era best described by the historian Adam Tooze as a “polycrisis.” A term coined by the French philosopher Edgar Morin, it refers to the simultaneous eruption of multiple, interacting existential challenges with their own distinct centers of gravity. Individually, each of them seems manageable, but they could collectively overwhelm the international system with dire consequences for humanity.

But way before climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) fully alter our lives, humanity could end up sealing its own fate through destructive nihilism and untrammeled militarism. The month of October treated the world with many geopolitical surprises, which should alert us to the distinct prospect of a global conflict.

Think of the tit-for-tat missile exchanges between the two most powerful nations in the Middle East. There are reasons to believe that the two antagonists are still committed to calibrating their direct confrontation, but the risk of a regional conflagration with the direct participation of superpowers is still within the realm of possibility—especially if we get a swashbuckling version of a Trump 2.0 presidency next year.

On a more fundamental level, however, we are also witnessing the steady collapse of the very institutions, which are supposed to prevent a global conflict. The horrific atrocities on Oct. 7 last year—and the unfathomable evisceration of whole neighborhoods from Gaza to Lebanon in the ensuing months—have grave consequences for the post-war order.

After spending years rallying the Global South against Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion of sovereign Ukraine, the West is now on the back foot—both geopolitically and morally. Nothing better

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