Rule of Law in Peril: Trump, Venezuela, and the End of the Postwar Order
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Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro warn that Trump’s presidency has attacked the postwar international legal order by undermining universal norms, sanctioning international courts, breaching trade and UN obligations, and endorsing unilateral force. They point to the Venezuela operation that kidnapped Maduro as a stark example of how legal constraints are being discarded. If this trend continues, the world risks a ruleless order where power—not law—defines rights, leading to greater instability and conflict.
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