global governance

The Future of NATO: An Interview with Daniel Falcone
 

Interview with Daniel Falcone, June 21, 2018, initially published in TruthOut, July 3, 2018
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Questions on U.S. Withdrawal from UNHRC
 

 
[Prefatory Note:  This post is my review of an important critical study of the deplorable conditions of law and politics in the current global setting. The author grounds his diagnosis and proposals on a philosophical interpretation of this subject-matter, but the radical vision although appealing gives little attention to how such a vision can become a political project, and so this learned text creates an impression of apolitical utopianism. This review will be shortly published in the American Journal of International Law.]
 
 
 

[Prefatory Note: This post is an expanded and somewhat modified version of an opinion piece published by the online publication, global-e on May 1, 2018. It seeks to raise questions and suggest different ways of conceiving of democratic governance.]
 
The End of Democracy?

Attacking Syria
 

Toward the Creation of a World Parliament: Strongly Recommended Reading
 

The UN: Instrumental or Normative?
 
[Prefatory Note: A greatly modified version of this post was published in Middle East Eye on March 12, 2018, under the title, “The UN: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.”]
 
 A Renewed Crisis of Confidence
 

Book Launch: Revisiting the Vietnam War: The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
 
 
Why the Legal and Political Debate on the Vietnam War Still Matters
 
 

 
Trump, the UN, and the Future of Jerusalem
 
[Prefatory Note: This post is the modified text of an interview on behalf of the Tasnim News Agency in Iran as conducted by Mohammed Hassani. It tries to assess the wider implications of the UN reaction to Trump’s December 6th decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to follow this by relocating the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.]