After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H_yP8q38TMWpxhvSqjqZrg

CDGA is delighted to host a book colloquium on our Fellow Rana Dasgupta’s latest book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order (William Collins, 2026). The work presents a global history of the nation-state and a diagnosis of the large-scale transition engulfing the world today.

Joining us in discussion are CDGA Fellows Christopher Decker, Amir Paz-Fuchs and Frank Vibert. The discussion will be moderated by CDGA Fellow Zim Nwokora.

Participants:

Rana Dasgupta is a CDGA Fellow and a British novelist and essayist. This book colloquium will be focused on his latest book, After Nations. His other works include  Solo (2009) and Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi (Canongate, 2014). He is the recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Prix Émile Guimet de Littérature Asiatique and the The Ryszard Kapuściński Award. He lives in France.

Christopher Decker is a CDGA Fellow and Editorial Board member. An economist with over 25 years of experience, he is also the Director of Oxford Economic Consulting and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where his research focuses on economic aspects of law and regulation and wider political economy. His experience ranges across all the regulated industries including gas, electricity, communications, transport, water, financial services, payment systems, legal and professional services, health and digital markets.

Zim Nwokora is a CDGA Fellow and an Associate Professor in Politics at Deakin University. He is also the director of the Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) programme. His research interests are in comparative politics and political theory, with a substantive focus on constitutions, political parties and political finance. His empirical research often involves cross-country comparative analyses, but he also follows closely politics in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Nigeria.

Amir Paz-Fuchs is a CDGA Fellow and the Head of the School of Law at the University of Manchester. Until August 2026, he was the Head of the University of Sussex Law School. He has taught and researched in labour and employment law, jurisprudence, social rights and social justice, and legal aspects of privatisation. Amir has also volunteered as an Employment Specialist and a Trustee for Citizens Advice West Sussex and is Director on the Central Application Board (Law CAB).

Frank Vibert is a CDGA Fellow and an associate of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics, where he was a Senior Visiting Fellow between 2008–2020. Prior to that he was a Co-Founder and Director of the European Policy Forum, where he remains on the Advisory Council as Founder Director. His current research interests are on multilateralism and international regulation, regulatory governance in the EU and domestic context, and constitutionalism.