Author: Ole Aldag

[Ole Aldag, LL.M. (Aberdeen) is a bar-registered lawyer in Düsseldorf (Germany) and a doctoral student at Bielefeld University] When international law’s core prohibitions are violated in full daylight, accompanied by strained legal justifications of actors showing no restraint in exercising their powers— what remains of its authority? The prohibition on the use of force has always operated in tension with global...