It is appropriate that our German comrades have made this critique as they have had the closest relations with the Athens group. Indeed the high water mark of that cooperation was the bilingual leaflet that they issued together during the Greek debt crisis urging solidarity between Greek and German workers (published in English in Aurora at leftcom.org ). Internationalism has always been a protean concept. Some take it as a synonym for globalization; for others it means co-operation through multilateral institutions; and, after the Cold War, it simply meant, in the words of Perry Anderson, the ability of the United States to ‘extend its military power to Eurasia’ (to the former Yugoslavia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan etc). For the Left, internationalism is rooted in a revolutionary, working-class and anti-imperialist tradition.

To begin with, Grotius never said or even suggested that war was “legal.” Nor can one reasonably infer that he did so. War (or Peace), said Grotius, is a state or condition in which two people or peoples find themselves depending upon the nature of their political association. The inside story of Biden’s foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America’s global influence in the aftermath of TrumpFrom 2009 to 2013, 2010 to 2014, 2013 to 2017, and 2016 to 2020, the last period in which a study was done, Hathaway was one of the ten most cited international law scholars. [12] [13] [14] [15] She was both the only woman in the top 10 and also youngest person on both lists. She is also among the top 10 most cited legal scholars in any field born in 1970 or after. [16] She has published widely and been quoted in the media as an expert on treaties and constitutional law. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] In 2014–15, she served as the special counsel to the general counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, a position for which she received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. Her book with Scott J. Shapiro, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2017 and was launched at an event organized in Washington, D.C., by New America and moderated by its vice president, Peter Bergen. [22] The Internationalists received wide acclaim by The New Yorker, [23] The Financial Times, [24] and The Economist, [25] among others.

Russian President Putin has spoken out about the “catastrophic” civilian deaths in Gaza, but publicly accepted no responsibility for a single civilian death in Ukraine (which officially stands at 10,000, but could be much higher). Both President Donald Trump’s supporters and opponents advocate competing forms of internationalism— free-trading and Christian in the case of Mike Pence, for example; pacific and juridical in the case of the recently founded, Trump-skeptical Quincy Institute. The sooner we recognize this, the sooner a more open, intelligent and productive debate on the U.S.’s place in the world will be possible. Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. This pertains to all the authors of the piece, their spouses or partners. Finnemore, Melody. "Oregon State Bar Bulletin June 2008 – Planting the Seeds: An Early Interest in the Law Takes Root in Classroom Law Project's Programs". Oregon State Bar. And yet since 1945 nations have gone to war against other nations very few times. When they have, most of the rest of the world has regarded the war as illegitimate and, frequently, has organized to sanction or otherwise punish the aggressor. In only a handful of mostly minor cases since 1945—the Russian seizure of Crimea in 2014 being a flagrant exception—has a nation been able to hold on to territory it acquired by conquest.Isolationism, however, is not why the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant. Moreover, it is a deeply misleading label for the way the U.S. engaged with the world in the interwar period. Recognizing this has consequences for the way we see America’s place in the world after 1945, even today.