How can there be real accountability for war crimes when international law is replaced by an undefined 'rules-based order'?
Act, authorizing the U.S. military to use whatever force necessary to free any U.S. citizen ever arrested by the International Criminal Court.
This kind of victor's justice—a longstanding component of American exceptionalism—is an old story in U.S. politics and historiography since World War II. But it has become less hidden and more explicit in the last two decades as the Global War on Terror reshaped so much of the world. In even more recent years, the elusive "rules-based order" has replaced international law as the basis of global legitimacy for Washington. And some of that shift goes back to the war in Iraq.
The "rules-based order" of the 21st century is the order defined and imposed by the United States and its closest allies. The "rules-based order" of the 21st century is the order defined and imposed by the United States and its closest allies.
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