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Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, and a contributing editor at Boston Review.
The UN's “responsibility to protect” framework has failed to achieve a just international order. The Caribbean movement for reparations points the way forward.
In the 1970s, a bloc of Third World states forced the United Nations to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. Could their example inspire a new generation?
A political appeal to “the people” is a central element of democratic societies. Can we imagine a revitalized, multiracial populist politics today?
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