“Collective self-defence”, “imminent threat”, “pre-emptive attacks”, all these international law buzzwords have been invoked recently with all the more conviction that they were used to counter an alleged nuclear threat from Iran. “States have to have some kind of anticipatory self-defence right”, acknowledges Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale University in this new podcast from Assymmetrical Haircuts. “It’s just that our time, unlike during the Cold War, have seen a big broadening of that right.” “We need a profound change to the interstate system to make it plausible for the goal of peace”, argues Moyn.
ASYMMETRICAL HAIRCUTS
This podcast has been published as part of a partnership between Justice Info and Asymmetrical Haircuts, a podcast on international justice produced from The Hague by journalists Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, who retain full control and independence over the contents of the podcast.
