https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820939618 Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2020, Vol. 48(3) 340–350 © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0305829820939618 journals.sagepub.com/home/mil 1. Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-determination. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 13. 2. Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal Health, Education and Other Public Services Reduce the Gap Between Rich and Poor, and Between Women and Men. Fairer Taxation of the Wealthiest Can Help Pay for Them, 21 January 2019. Available at: https://www.oxfam. org/en/research/public-good-or-private-wealth. Last accessed April 26, 2020. Postcolonial Paradoxes, Ambiguities of Self- determination and Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire Jenna Marshall University of Kassel, Germany Keywords empire, postcolonialism, self-determination Introduction In Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Adom Getachew writes ‘the task of building a world after empire remains as much ours as it was theirs’. 1 Getachew signals the ethical stakes at play within the current neoliberal globalisation conjuncture: rising global inequality, deepening social antagonisms, and market logic with impunity in the face of the climate emergency. Anticolonial worldmakers, she insists, stood to radically reorder the world not on realist realpolitik or even liberal insti- tutional internationalism but rather on anticolonial principles of non-domination and egalitarianism. Such positions warrant greater interrogation, which Getachew achieves, as the meteoric rise of the global 1 percent continues unabated at the expense of growing precarity of the proverbial ‘99’. For the global South, Oxfam disclosed in their 2019 report that 26 individuals’ assets were equivalent to those of 3.8 billion people, who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population. 2 Unequal wealth and income Corresponding author: Jenna Marshall, University of Kassel, Nora-Platiel-Straße, 1, Kassel, Hessen 34127, Germany. Email: jenna.marshall@uni-kassel.de 939618MIL 0 0 10.1177/0305829820939618Millennium – Journal of International StudiesMarshall research-article 2020 Book Forum