international law

A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

Undermining international oceans governance could damage American interests.

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.

A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial.

The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

American pundits say Putin is undermining the international order. But the ability of great powers to ignore the rules is a lamentable part of the system.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

Seventy years after the UN Refugee Convention, the United States should refresh its commitment to displaced people.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

The Early Republic’s maritime jurisprudence is even more relevant given the immense power of the modern executive.

In the early 1980s Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border, galvanizing the Sanctuary Movement.

A common US-centric narrative holds that the crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.

After two years of war and tens of thousands of casualties, Israel and Hamas have accepted a peace plan put forward by US President Donald Trump.

Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to use the military base to incarcerate migrants.

A Q&A with the author of "America, América: “A New History of the New World.”

Bringing historical perspective to the current moment of nationalism redux and US-Canada border complexity.

How Israel’s war in Gaza echoes the ancient doctrine of conquest behind Spain’s colonization of Latin America.

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.

It made itself bigger.

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.

On civilians’ opinion of killing civilians by air during World War II.

Small wars have been used as a foundation of global order. The belief that limited violence preserves peace serves imperial control.

Too often, U.S. support for open navigation has devolved into military conflict.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.

The US’s history of evasiveness around wartime atrocities undermines the very institution that could bring Putin to justice: the International Criminal Court.

A new history draws on recently declassified archives to illustrate how the Korean War was an intimate civil conflict, not just a proxy battle between superpowers.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

The charges, while provocative, offer a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.