Five Books That Explain the Chaos of 2024
Briefly

"The Israel-Hamas war has put international law back in the spotlight and not always in a favorable way. Many people expect international law to serve as a kind of escape from geopolitics... When it turns out that is not the case, that can lead to the angry conclusion that international law is nothing more than meaningless hypocrisy."
"Kate Cronin-Furman's book, Hypocrisy and Human Rights, helps frame the discussion by arguing that the best way to understand international law is as something between meaningless and all-powerful."
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