title: &lt;em&gt;Gemeinschaft&lt;/em&gt; as the Lynchpin of Multilateralism: World Order and the Challenge of Multipolarity
abstract: This paper seeks to understand the impact of the ongoing shifts in global politics upon the operation of international law. Specifically, it examines how a re-configuration of global political power from a ‘unipolar’ system dominated by the US to a ‘multipolar’ system in which the US will need to share the apex of the international political power structure with rising states will affect the operation and evolution of the international legal system, with a particular focus upon how the present a
journal: Irish Studies in International Affairs