Eight decades after the UN Charter was signed, the so-called rules-based order is looking pretty battered. Still, the fact that someone breaks a rule doesn’t make it invalid. Law and reality never fully align. Otherwise, we wouldn’t need law.
Author: Paul Middelhoff
He studied security policy in Tel Aviv and journalism in Eichstätt and Washington. He trained at the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg. He is the author of a book published by Rowohlt (“The Network of the New Right”).