2024-08-27: Have you – Yes YOU – ever noticed increasing references, over the past few years, to the International Rules-Based Order (RBO) in mainstream media … heavily promoted by USA and certain European political cliques ?
Are You Curious WHY ?
What is this #RBO ? Where are these Rules written down ?? Are they enforceable … and if yes, by what internationally agreed mechanism ???
How does the RBO relate, if at all, to the United Nations (#UN) Charter, International Law, the International Court of Justice (#ICJ), or the International Criminal Court (#ICC) ?
How were the #USA / #UK / #NATO able to justify the use of their illegal ‘shock and awe’ force against, for example, #Iraq (2003) … followed by #Libya (2011) and #Syria (2014) ?
How and why is the USA able to prop up and shield the Criminal Apartheid Racist State of #Israel – a Twisted Zionist Polity – and its political and military leaders from international accountability before the UN Security Council, the ICJ and the ICC … for War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide ?
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Read & Weep … Pay Attention & Be Warned …
A very interesting Editorial by John Dugard SC was published in 2023. He is a former Member of the UN International Law Commission, Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice, and UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories …
Leiden Journal of International Law
John Dugard: ‘The Choice Before Us – International Law or a Rules Based International Order’ (2023)
(Link Above – Download PDF File, 169 Kb – 10 Pages)
‘ The RBO is something other than International Law. It is an alternative regime outside the discipline of International Law which inevitably challenges and threatens International Law. Charitably it may be seen as an order comprising values of a liberal order. Less charitably, it may be seen as a competing order advocated by some Western states, particularly the United States of America, which seeks to impose the interpretation of International Law that best advances the interests of the West, particularly those of the United States of America. Unlike International Law, it does not seem to be a universal order. Instead, it is an order employed by the West, again particularly the United States of America, to ensure its dominance.’
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Robust International Law & Lasting Peace
are Fundamental Prerequisites for
Sustainable Human & Social Development
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