Published on Dec. 18, 2025

Assistant provost and professor Shruti Rana recently published a new article in the Melbourne Journal of International Law examining how populist governments in constitutional democracies often challenge, de-legitimize, or withdraw from treaty-based and other international bodies.

Rana’s article, written alongside co-authors Peter Danchin, Jeremy Farrall and Imogen Saunders, proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing contemporary patterns of state engagement and disengagement with international law and institutions amid rising populist backlash against the post-1945 liberal order.

To read the full article, click here.