Although questions about international law persist, especially when powerful nations use their political power to ‘bend’ the law, today hardly anyone declares international law as irrelevant.
The growth of international organisations, particularly in the twentieth century when the concept of global governance came of age, means that nearly every aspect of life is regulated in some way at the global level.
While we certainly live in a global economy, for the time being we lack a common response to the challenges this brings – especially in establishing control over a still-evolving global market system.
Civil society activities have been responsible for a number of important contributions. While far from representing a democratisation of world politics, the incremental steps should not be underestimated.
The academic discipline of International Relations has gradually moved away from a dominant focus on the state and the system to deal more with the role and perspective of groups and individuals.
Local judges need to be more empowered, not less, so that they can engage their training in impartial decision making based on law and principle.
International politics, for good and for bad, was shaped by Europeans and by non-Europeans copying European examples.
In a time of contested facts and ‘fake news’, librarians could make a worthwhile contribution to discussion of Brexit by assisting with the negotiation of meaning.
Trump may ‘normalise’ his attitude to China after inauguration. If he does not, the consequences of such a strategy of provocation are potentially catastrophic.
Yemen’s faltering economy desperately requires sustained, well-coordinated efforts to rebuild a country devastated by war and facing a humanitarian crisis.
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