Malcolm Jorgensen

Malcolm Jorgensen
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Dr Malcolm Jorgensen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. He holds a PhD in International Law and American Foreign Policy from the University of Sydney, where he remains an Associate of the Sydney Centre for International Law. 

Malcolm was formerly a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, a Research Fellow at the Berlin Potsdam Research Group, Humboldt University Berlin, and served as an Assistant Director in the Legal Division of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His research covers the politics of international law and global order, contestation of the international legal order, and American domestic and foreign policy. He is an experienced broadcast and print media commentator and the author of American Foreign Policy Ideology and The International Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Abandoning the rules-based order is no solution
Abandoning the rules-based order is no solution
Competing narratives about the international order are being weaponised in an age of renewed territorial ambitions.
China is overturning the rules-based order from within
China is overturning the rules-based order from within
By contesting basic principles of international law, China is doing far more damage than is often recognised.
International law cannot save the rules-based order
International law cannot save the rules-based order
Rising Chinese power is carving out a “geolegal” order, with reference to China, rather than international law, the key.
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