International law, international community, the West and the rest of us (I), by Usman Sarki
The so-called rules-based international order has become one of the most repeated expressions in Western diplomacy.
They therefore understand instinctively that international law cannot remain credible if it is applied as an instrument for disciplining the weak while excusing the strong.
International law was not always a restraint upon power; at times it was a language through which power clothed itself in legitimacy.
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