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Mar
International Courts and the Ouroboros: Legitimacy in the Age of Populism
[Shagnik Mukherjea is an undergraduate student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India] Introduction Globalization, nation-states, and democratic politics cannot fully coexist—only two can be sustained at any given time. In his 2000 paper, Dani Rodrik introduced this idea as the political trilemma of the world economy. He predicted that nation-states would eventually give way to globalization, but not...