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The first year of Trump’s second term has been a chaotic one for trade, as for so much else. Before inauguration, the President had already threatened tariffs against Denmark to force a “sale” of Greenland. Within days of taking office, he began threatening or imposing illegal tariffs against Colombia, China, Mexico, Canada, all steel and […]
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My new book, _Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars_ opposes conventional wisdom in in international relations scholarship. Contra widespread thinking, it proposes that states do not “tie their hands” when they wish to make threats more effective. They prefer to retain the flexibility to avoid undesired wars, rather than make it impossible or […]
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Today the international order appears to be falling apart. War in Eastern Europe is continuing to escalate, militarism is on the rise in Western Europe, and the USA seems to be increasingly disinterested in playing by the rules which helped support its global hegemony after 1945. At least in the liberal West, international disorder is […]
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Exiting from international organizations (IOs) seems to be the strategy du jour in international relations. This is underscored by recent high-profile events: the implementation of Brexit in 2020, Russia’s IO exits after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, and US President Trump’s announced withdrawals from IOs starting in 2017. By February 2025, Trump issued an executive […]
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What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers see “a world of buyers and sellers,” it is likely that international institutional lawyers see a world of delegated competences. They dream of inter-state […]
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In a world afflicted by an absence of trust in authority and institutions of virtually all kinds, democracy is almost everywhere in retreat and the unfreedom of authoritarianism is on the rise. At the same time, humanity is falling farther behind in its endeavors to achieve ambitious global goals for human development through sustainable economic, […]
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Governing the European economy does not result from decisions taken by national executives acting in isolation. It is the product of a laborious and frequently frustrating coordination effort orchestrated at the continental level. It all began on a cold, yet remarkable, winter day of 7 February 1992, with the signature of the Treaty of Maastricht. […]
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On April 10 2025 SCOTUS decided on the case 24A949 Noem vs. Abrego Garcia. Examining the reasoning of a District Court ordering the Government to “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia] to the United States”. The Court removed the verb “effectuate” from the decision because it does not express “due regard for the […]
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