About this episode
The episode discusses the erosion of the post-World War II rules-based order and the rise of populism and nationalism threatening global stability.
With the aftermath of the Second World War a new ‘rules-based order’ was pioneered overseen by international organisations such as the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the International Court of Justice, the EU and the World Health Organisation. They embodied the desire that shared notions of justice, the rule of international law, and the recognition of our interdependence through peaceful trade, would protect humanity from the horror of global war in the future. Albeit multi-cultural and secular organisations, in their depths the echo of recognisably Christian voices resounded.What has been deeply troubling, in the space of only a few years, has been the rapid erosion of that consensus, not only by the most despotic and cruel regimes of the world, but also by certain politicians, certain parties and certain democratic governments greedy for short-term political advantage and personal enrichment.A combination of the cynical, the unscrupulous, the calculating and the downright corrupt, preying on the minds of the vulnerable, the gullible and the easily led – where hundreds of years of progress through struggle, and courageous self-sacrifice are in danger of being swept away by a wave…
Topics covered
- post-war order
- international organizations
- Christianity
- populism
- nationalism
Keywords
- IMF
- UN
- World Bank
- democracy
- freedom
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