Professor Indrajit Roy has a new Special Collection in International Affairs.
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Posted on Wednesday 18 March 2026
Professor Indrajit Roy has co-edited a Special Collection titled "Multiplexity 2.0: Power and plurality in a post-liberal world" just published in the prestigious Chatham House journal International Affairs. In addition to co-authoring the introduction to the collection, he has also contributed an article titled "Assering Southern agency: The moralistic realism of multiplexity" to the collection.
Professor Indrajit Roy has co-edited a Special Collection titled "Multiplexity 2.0: Power and plurality in a post-liberal world" just published in the prestigious Chatham House journal International Affairs. In addition to co-authoring the introduction to the collection, he has also contributed an article titled "Assering Southern agency: The moralistic realism of multiplexity" to the collection.
How can we best read the post-liberal era of world politics? The special section for International Affairs co-edited by Professor Roy builds on the concept of "Multiplexity" to capture the interface of hard power, soft power and global diversity. By unpacking the ‘multiplicity’ and ‘complexity’ of our transforming world order, such an approach captures non-linear, multidirectional patterns for an ultimately more ‘realistic’ reading of world (dis)order.
Professor Roy's own paper for the collection investigates the moralistic realism of the emerging multiplex world order by examining the recent expansion of the BRICS alongside the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). He illustrates how members of the two groupings advance a view of the world that checks efforts at domination of both established and aspiring hegemons. The article makes three contributions to the literature. Empirically, it charts recent developments in the BRICS and the IPEF. Methodologically, it introduces the moral economy approach to the study of international affairs. Theoretically, it offers insights into ways in which the agency of the global South contributes to producing a multiplex world order.