THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NADIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL ORDER

The International Liberal Order (ILO) is the subject of an ongoing debate on whether it is likely to collapse or endure. This article identifies gaps in this debate and makes the case that U.S. foreign policy played a significant role in undermining the ILO. Therefore, based on postcolonialism perspective, we intend to study this narrative construction with particular focus on three main issues: first, the failure in Doha Development Agenda (DDA); secondly, the Global War on Terror (GWT); and the Kyoto Protocol refusal. We conclude that, over the past decades, ILO maintenance has relied on northern hegemony over the global south, which can be observed through the United States foreign policy behavior in multilateral trade, security and global environmental agendas. It argues that the establishment of legitimized practices that dented core ILO values and institutions.