The liberal script, as it was elaborated by the United Nations and its treaties in the aftermath of World War II, saw the reconstitution and mutual reinforcement of individual and collective self-determination. With the neoliberal turn and its globalization since the 1990s, we observe a decisive decoupling of individual and collective self-determination and a predominance of individual agency (over the collective), which gives rise to paradoxical challenges characteristic of contemporary liberal societies.

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