/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor

/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor

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March 17, 2026 · 42 min · Episode 555

About this episode

Tom Chodor discusses the concept of multilateralism and the current state of global order.

On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose contents have been hollowed out. What is "multilateralism"? Why is it an important concept to capture the US-led order that is now falling apart? If multilateralism was always in crisis, what is new today? Is the emerging (dis)order multipolar or apolar? What's the difference? Is multilateralism the historic exception that we wrongly take to be the norm? Why is there no going back to the post-1945 – or post-1991 – order? What are the prospects for a new hegemonic order? Isn’t prolonged chaos and decay more likely? The full episode is for subscribers. Join at patreon.com/bungacast Links: Non-Hegemony, Tom Chodor, Jack Taggart and Ilias Alami, Phenomenal World /377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor /357/ Lucky, Meaty Nations ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

People in this episode

Host: Bungacast

Guest: Tom Chodor

Topics covered

  • non-hegemony
  • multilateralism
  • world disorder
  • US-led order
  • global politics
  • chaos and decay

Keywords

  • multilateralism
  • non-hegemony
  • world disorder
  • US-led order
  • global politics
  • chaos
  • hegemonic order

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Monash University

Books & works: Phenomenal World

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