Lawfare
The United Nations building in New York City. (SouthernWI/https://flic.kr/p/bs2PJM/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Editor’s Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
The world is witnessing the largest land war in Europe since the Second World War. This brazen act of aggression by the Russian Federation has prompted some officials and commentators to declare that the dams are breaking and the modern international legal order is collapsing. Earlier this week, for example, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba predicted, “The beginning of a large-scale war in Ukraine will be the end of the world order as we know it.” Meanwhile, Susan Glasser of The New YorkerPutin Can’t Destroy the International Order by Himself