Pascal Lottaz speaks with Richard Falk, Senior Vice President at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Professor Emeritus of international law at Princeton University about the state of international law in 2026, power and reciprocity, the UN order after 1945, unipolar decline, US militarism, neutrality, Gaza and Israel, media framing, and whether law can still restrain great powers in a more unstable world.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:16 International law in 2026
00:05:24 Law power and reciprocity
00:10:28 Unipolarity and instability
00:16:38 US militarism and failed wars
00:27:35 Rules based order and reform
00:39:25 Neutrality and shifting alliances
00:47:21 Can US realism still change
00:54:57 Israel Palestine media and war law
