...“homo homini lupus”) which masks as order its core logic of conquest and domination. Trump’s dystopian visions (from Greenland to Panama, from Eastern Ukraine to
Palestine), constrained less by common values and normative commitments than by realpolitik considerations, do not so much disrupt the international order as they lay bare the underlying architecture that has long sustained it. As such, Morocco’s intensifying integration of Western Sahara into its economy, premised on landgrab and segregation and facilitated by European complicity and rhetorical appeals to “development”, reflects international law’s systemic inability to...
