http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/4bb065472138dcd6 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-global-east-and-the-promise-of-reflexivity/ The Global East and the Promise of Reflexivity Leontiev, Lucia eng 2026-11-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 colonialism globalisation International Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In 1999, David Kennedy famously affirmed that “international law is different in different places”, a reality that practitioners and scholars around the world had already long experienced. From the Global South’s imperial critique and rejection of international law, to a religiously infused international law in the Arab World, or the recent acknowledgement of European international law as a regional law, one can argue that the “local” in international law is central to any inquiry on reflexivity.