Round Table 2 — Breaking free from the common rule

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As international law is applied selectively, or even openly ignored, a new hierarchy seems to be taking shape, differentiating victims and sovereignties. In every conflict there are rules; in every situation, different balances. If we look more closely at the violence at play, it appears we are not witnessing an “exception”, but a shift toward a world in which force tends to prevail over law. Yet juridical language persists: it now serves to legitimize illegal actions or to disqualify those who remind us of the princi…