During the Cold War, the United States promoted international law and human rights as a way to constrain its global rivals. Since the 1990s, however, Washington has more and more often dispensed with even the rhetorical cover of international law. The United States and its allies have habitually considered themselves exempt from international legal constraints.
The decades since the 2003 invasion of Iraq have witnessed an acceleration of this trend. What is the cost of a full-fledged abandonment of the norms promoted by international law and human rights? International law and Middle East policy scholar Aslı Ü. Bâli discusses the many disturbing practical outcomes of our current state of eroded international law, including the impact on sanctions regimes, assassinations, and wars.
Participants include:
Sistani’s Historic Legacy
How Is the Gaza War Affecting the Middle East?
Aid That Backfires
Shia Power: Sectarian Prejudice
Shia Power: Iraq’s Nationalist Revolutionaries
Shia Power: Do Clerics Still Have Authority?
Shia Power: What’s an Islamist?
Facing Iraq’s Climate Catastrophe
Lebanon’s Botched Economic Rescue
Power and Power in Lebanon
A Tale of Two Border Towns
Broken Bonds: Quitting the Brotherhood
Broken Bonds: Leaders without Legitimacy
Broken Bonds: No Identity
Broken Bonds: Existential Crises
Broken Bonds: My Life as a Muslim Brother
The Earthquake, Cholera, and Borders
Iraq’s Heist of the Century
Progressive Policy: Shrinking America’s Military Footprint
Progressive Policy: Replacing the War on Terror
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