About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of 'order' in the context of global power dynamics and resistance, featuring insights from political strategist Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla.

Welcome back to After Order - a series from Macrodose and the Alameda Institute - exploring power, sovereignty, and crisis in today's unstable world. ⁠⁠Event Tickets: Political Economy in a Time of Monsters ⁠⁠ In this week’s show, host James Meadway is joined by Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla - political strategist, activist, Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International, and Executive Secretary of the Hague Group, a coalition of Global South nations launched in 2025 to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in Palestine. Varsha’s work sits at the intersection of law, empire, and resistance - as both an organiser and an intellectual, grappling with what it might mean to build a decolonial internationalism rooted in the Global South. From Honduras, where a US corporation is suing the state for billions in a secret tribunal, to Ecuador, where an authoritarian regime with the direct assistance of the US is crushing democracy in the name of the War on Drugs, to the bombs falling on Gaza - in flagrant violation of international law - it’s clear we are living through a rupture in the global “order”. But Varsha argues that “order”, the so called “rules-based international system”…

People in this episode

Host: James Meadway

Guest: Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla

Topics covered

• power
• sovereignty
• crisis
• decolonial internationalism
• global capitalism
• law and resistance

Keywords

• political strategy
• Global South
• international law
• exploitation
• war on drugs
• democracy
• coercion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Progressive International, Hague Group

Places: Honduras, Ecuador, Gaza, Iran

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