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Samuel Moyn: Can Multipolarity Save Liberalism?

Samuel Moyn: Can Multipolarity Save Liberalism?

Update: 2025-09-05
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Samuel Moyn, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, joins us to discuss the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism, its role in international relations, and the possibility of a multipolar liberal order emerging in a period of U.S. decline.

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*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

Time Stamps:

  • 01:15 : The Liberal Order in Decline
  • 03:47 : Features of Liberalism
  • 08:51 : Liberalism in International Relations
  • 11:15 : The Intellectuals’ Abandonment of Liberalism
  • 16:58 : The Roots of Neoconservatism
  • 20:43 : Liberal Internationalists, Human Rights, and Intervention 
  • 27:41 : Decolonization as a Liberal Project
  • 32:41 : A Coming Liberal Multipolar Order?
  • 43:35 : The EU’s Position in the Emerging Order
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Samuel Moyn: Can Multipolarity Save Liberalism?

Samuel Moyn: Can Multipolarity Save Liberalism?

Peter Slezkine