After more than two years of ongoing genocide in Gaza, many have pronounced the so-called “rules-based world order” dead. Gaza marks the first genocide to be livestreamed for the world to witness, enabled by individuals, corporations, and governments across the globe. Yet, if international law, the United Nations, and international courts alike failed to avert Gaza’s genocide, we must ask whether such an order ever meaningfully existed to begin with. And now, as the US—once the self-proclaimed leader of this liberal paradigm—casts it aside in favor of more overt mechanisms of power projection, another pressing question emerges: What kind of world order is taking shape in its wake?

Join Al-Shabaka’s upcoming Policy Lab for a conversation with Noura Erakat and Jake Romm on how Gaza helped shatter the old status quo and what that break reveals about the world being built in its wake.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a Professor at Rutgers University. She is the co-founder of Jadaliyya and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.

Jake Romm is a writer and lawyer currently based in New York City. He is the US representative for the Hind Rajab Foundation.

Tariq Kenney-Shawa is Al-Shabaka's US Policy Fellow and co-host of Al-Shabaka's Policy Lab series. He holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University. 

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After Gaza’s Genocide: What World Order?