"In September, the Financial Times published an editorial headlined A world without rules. That view was premised on two incidents: Israel's launch of a missile strike on a building that hosted Hamas officials in Qatar; and the flight of 19 Russian drones into Polish airspace. This flouting of the previous rules-based order, the FT said, was now producing a kind of anarchy and a proliferation of violence."
"Much as we may wish it to be the case, we are not in a rule-of-law era today, he wrote. In his view, raw power is being asserted everywhere we look, and those who operate on the global stage are wilfully breaking the rules of the post-1945 legal international order. He references Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. That is certainly one view. But is it the case that raw power is being asserted everywhere we look?"
The founding of the United Nations and the International Military Tribunal in 1945 established a postwar legal framework to investigate war crimes and uphold international law. Recent incidents such as a missile strike on a building hosting Hamas officials in Qatar and Russian drones entering Polish airspace have prompted claims of a collapsing rules-based order. Some observers argue that raw power now dominates global affairs, citing Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and other breaches. Historical examples show recurrent assaults on international rules since 1945, including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Iraq. The pattern indicates repeated lawlessness rather than a singular, new era of lawlessness.
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