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?
Noura Erakat and Jake Romm joined us for a policy lab episode on how Gaza helped shatter the old status quo and what that break reveals about the world being built in its wake.
Tariq Kenney-Shawa is Al-Shabaka’s Associate Fellow, based in New York, and co-host of Al-Shabaka’s Policy Lab series. He holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. Tariq’s research and writing have covered a range of topics, from the role of open-source intelligence in exposing Israel’s war crimes to analysis of Palestinian liberation tactics. His writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation, among others. Tariq also serves as Associate Director of Editorial for the Institute for Middle East Understanding.
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research focuses on human rights law, humanitarian law, refugee law, and critical race theory, with a particular focus on Palestine. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya, and an editorial committee member for the Journal of Palestine Studies. She holds a JD from UC Berkeley and an LLM in National Security from Georgetown University Law Center.
