Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2026
Abstract
World leaders from Canada’s Mark Carney to Germany’s Friedrich Merz have announced the demise of the international rules that provided some degree of order to international relations since the Second World War.2 The immediate cause is clear to them and others – a seeming abandonment of international law, and the UN Charter in particular, by the United States government, its chief architect and advocate. The U.S. actions and rhetoric over Venezuela and Iran – wars the United States has started – as well as Greenland and Ukraine seem to have confirmed the worst about the future of international law.
Recommended Citation
Ratner, Steven R. "Can – and Should – the UN Charter Be Saved?" Florida State Journal of Transnational Law and Policy 35 (2026): 14-28.
Comments
© 2026 Florida State Journal of Transnational Law and Policy. Reproduced with permission.