The World Crisis and International Law
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The Battlegrounds of International Law, Chapter 12
The EU sticks out simply because the whole premise of the EU was integration based on international law. We're seeing significant pushback against EU hierarchy, powerful states like Germany who had been threatening since the 60s to invoke their basic constitutional norms to push back against EU. I talk about the Russian pushback just because it's so creative and outrageous. The way they've turned around there,. Russia was a state that like Germany, Italy, at the end of the war when the Soviet Union ended Russia at least formally through their constitution bought into the idea of international law hierarchy.
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