The limits of international law

Limits of International Law

If there was a problem with international law , it would be that there is selective relativism in terms of the application of it . In other words while many of the nation-states that belong to the charter of the United Nations and , by association , are bound by international law , many nations are In other words , there are many nations who will ignore international law when it suits them while at the same time flagrantly violating international law . For example , Russia is a signature to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

and has been effectively blocking action against Iran (a despot , radical regime seeking nuclear arms ) because Russia and Iran have a variety of financial deals that benefit Russia While there are numerous other examples of such flagrant violation of international law , this example shows the types of problems inherent with those nations that do not uphold international law when such law is inconvenient

In Robert Bork 's assessment There can be no authentic rule of law among nations until nations have a common political morality or are under a common sovereign . A glance at the real world suggests we have a while to wait ' the central issue posed is that one can not take international law seriously if there are regimes that are unwilling to actually provide a legitimate moral grounding into actually upholding the law and not putting domestic and international interest above international law . While this would seem somewhat like a departure from Watts ' assessment , it would be difficult to say that Watts ' a system of government where the rule of law and adherence to the law is purely subjective . After all , by that very nature , then there is no law but rather a `dog and pony show ' masquerading as law...