Lawless World

Brian Urquhart has the audacity to point out in the NYRB that we live in an "outlaw world."

What we commonly understand as international law, while initially drawn up in the hope that nation states would start to give a damn about stuff like human rights and morality following the carnage of WWII, is today mainly used by stronger states to beat weaker states into line, Urquhart observes. Lamentably, it has hardly anything to do with what we might call "justice."