From the movements
EU-Morocco Statement: autonomy without self-determination, law without lawfulness
A joint statement that came out of last week’s EU-Morocco Association Council asks readers to believe in a fiction: that an undefined autonomy plan imposed by an occupying power can satisfy the right to self-determination, and that respect for international law can coexist with the systematic ignoring of the EU’s own highest court.
Trade deals with El Salvador, Guatemala are gifts for tech CEOs
The Trump administration released a new “Agreement on Reciprocal Trade” with Guatemala, following the nearly identical one released yesterday with El Salvador.
Where is globalisation headed?
The shift in globalisation is not just a bump in the road. It signals a deep transformation of the world economy, its political balances and its power relations.
ISDS vs. the climate: How a colonial-era investment mechanism jeopardises a just transition
A little-known yet powerful legal mechanism is undermining the energy transition, by enabling fossil fuel companies to sue countries that take climate action.
The law of the jungle
Trump’s destructive foreign policy not only reveals the emptiness of the liberal ’rules-based order’, but announces a new approach built on military might and open corporate power.
