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Category Archives: International Law
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in International Law
No one says they want to control international law because it gives them power. They say they defend the rule of law, uphold sovereignty, protect victims, or interpret complexity for those who cannot navigate treaties alone. This is the central … Continue reading
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Decoding The Just Security Institute
Written with AI: The role of Just Security within the national security ecosystem extends into the granular management of professional reputations and the long-term archiving of dissent. While it functions as a coordination hub, it also operates as a prestige … Continue reading
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It’s Hard & Often Pointless To Regulate War
Carl Schmitt argued that law cannot control politics in moments of existential conflict. His famous formulation, “sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” means that real authority belongs to whoever can suspend normal rules when survival is at stake. … Continue reading
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‘Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law’
That’s the title of an essay by Australian law lecturer Amanda Alexander in the 2023 book, Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law. She writes: The distinction between civilians and combatants and the … Continue reading
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IR Scholar John Mueller’s Hilarious Ouvre
Sharp, witty, contrarian. Here are direct links to his work: Books Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010) — dismantles nuclear hysteria with wit — Oxford University Press • Mershon Center bio blurb • Cato event Chasing Ghosts: … Continue reading
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Decoding The Winning Strategy Of The Palestinians (6-25-24)
01:00 What are real moral categories vs fake moral categories (racism, imperialism, sexist)02:00 Tucker interviews Steve Sailer, https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/180564801336218851807:00 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid21:20 NYT: Israeli Military Must Draft Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Supreme Court Rules, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/world/middleeast/israel-military-ultra-orthodox-jews-supreme-court.html39:00 Elliott Blatt joins with a juicy story 1:05:00 … Continue reading
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What’s Wrong With Human Rights? (6-23-24)
01:00 Every major religion regards masturbation as a sin02:40 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtFJZB27M806:00 What’s wrong with human rights? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/whats-wrong-with-human-rights/14:00 Christopher Caldwell: Against Human Rights, https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-21/against-human-rights18:00 Christopher Caldwell: The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t … Continue reading
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The Ethics of Violence: Recent Literature on the Creation of the Contemporary Regime of Law and War
Amanda Alexander writes in 2021: Abstract: This paper reviews a body of recent literature that interrogates the development and deployment of the contemporary regime of political violence. This literature includes Samuel Moyn’s account of the emergence and dominance of the … Continue reading
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Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter
Amanda Alexander writes in 2023: Abstract: This article traces the expansion of international law from the Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to the contemporary understanding that international law governs all participants in conflict. This can … Continue reading
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Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe
Amanda Alexander writes: International humanitarian law (IHL) is the term which names, and also conceptualises, the current regime of the laws of war. The name belongs to a particular narrative about the history and purposes of this regime. In the … Continue reading
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