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You Think International Law Can't Restrain Power? That's Because You're Staring at a Straw Man

№ 2026.Jul.10-001

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You Think International Law Can't Restrain Power? That's Because You're Staring at a Straw Man

Martti Koskenniemi | Reading by Reading by Editor

The left loves to mock the impotence of international law — the UN can't discipline the United States, the International Court of Justice is a paper tiger. In NLR 154, Koskenniemi says: you've been looking in the wrong place. The law that truly rules the world was never in those halls you can see.

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