I continue to find it interesting how the Soviet Union and the rest of the socialist bloc is increasingly a phantom presence in how critical histories of international law are written. There is the expansion of US global hegemony and the forces of anti-imperialism. lpeproject.org/blog/somethi...
The United States’ turn toward naked coercion and transactional deal-making represents both a genuine departure from its commitment to the liberal international legal order and the culmination of that...