Vad händer när vi slutar bry oss om internationell rätt?

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Efter andra världskriget insåg många att något liknande inte kunde tillåtas hända igen. Därför författades regler, lagar och konventioner för att reglera hur vi människor får och inte får bete oss mot varandra.

Idag menar många att dessa lagar är på väg att monteras ned och att vi rör oss tillbaka mot en värld som istället styrs av den starkes rätt. Varför är det så? Har folkrätten någonsin respekterats? Och finns det något vi kan göra åt saken?

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Omer Bartov - professor i Förintelse- och folkmordsstudier vid Brown University

• Aryeh Neier - professor emeritus i juridik vid The Open Society Foundations

• Samuel Moyn - professor i juridik och historia vid Yale University

• Kenneth Roth - gästprofessor vid Princeton, advokat och fd chef för Human Rights Watch

Artiklar

• A Fear of Foreign Law - Jed S. Rakoff (NYROB, 2015)

• Our Hypocrisy on War Crimes - Fintan O’Toole (NYROB, 2022)

• What is the meaning of support? - David Renton (LRB, 2025)

• The Right Fight - Carolyn Neugarten (NYROB, 2024)

• Crimes of War in Gaza - Kenneth Roth (NYROB, 2024)

• Henry Kissinger’s genocidal legacy: Vietnam, Cambodia and the birth of American militarism - Greg Grandin (Salon, 2015)

• Steven Pinker on the alleged decline of violence - Edward S. Herman and David Peterson (ISR, 2012)

• The Court the US Doesn’t Want - Kenneth Roth (NYROB, 1998)

• The Nuremberg Precedent - Aryeh Neier, reply by István Deák (NYROB, 1993)

• Old-Boying - Erskine Childers (LRB, 1994)

• Has US power destroyed the UN? - Simon Chesterman and Michael Byers (LRB, 1999)

• The Two Different Ways of Looking at Nazi Murder - Christopher R. Browning (NYROB, 2016)

• ‘Infinite License’ - Omer Bartov (NYROB, 2025)

• Biden’s Selective Outrage - Fintan O’Toole (NYROB, 2023)

• Is Israel Committing Genocide? - Aryeh Neier (NYROB, 2024)

• Illusions of Containment - Tom Stevenson (LRB, 2025)

• After the Flood - Amjad Iraqi (LRB, 2023)

• Gaza under Siege - Tareq Baconi (LRB, 2025)

• The ICJ has demolished Israel’s claims that it is not occupying Palestinian territories - Kenneth Roth (The Guardian, 2024)

• The US and all nations must respect the UN resolution against Israeli occupation - Kenneth Roth (The Guardian, 2024)

• The ICC arrest warrants for top Israeli officials are a step toward justice - Kenneth Roth (The Guardian, 2024)

• Why the reluctance to recognize Israel’s genocide in Gaza? - Kenneth Roth (The Guardian, 2025)

• No More Victors’ Justice? - Stephen Sedley (LRB, 2003)

• The Outlaw World - Brian Urquhart (NYROB, 2006)

• Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of international humanitarian law -  Suzy Hansen (New York Magazine, 2025)

• The ICC: Myths and Realities - James A. Goldston and Aryeh Neier (NYROB, 2024)

• Rubble from Bone - Tom Stevenson (LRB, 2024)

• How to Measure Famine - Alex de Waal (LRB, 2025)

• The UN’s Failure: An Interview with Tadeusz Mazowiecki - Bernard Osser and Patrick de Saint-Exupery (NYROB, 1995)

• Jumping the Gun - Michael Byers (LRB, 2002)

• The Real Complaining Party - Michael O’Connor (LRB, 2024)

• Reasons to Comply - Philippe Sands (LRB, 2006)

• Our Man - Perry Anderson (LRB, 2007)

• No Legal Justification - Anne Orford (LRB, 2017)

• At least we worried - Susan Pedersen (LRB, 2015)

• Africa Attacks the International Criminal Court - Kenneth Roth (NYROB, 2014)

• Michael Ratner’s Tragedy, and Ours - Samuel Moyn (NYROB, 2021)

• America the Unaccountable - David Luban (NYROB, 2020)

• The Making of a Scapegoat - Brian Urquhart (NYROB, 1999)

• Is the UN Doomed? - Tony Judt (NYROB, 2007)

• War Therapy - Chase Madar (LRB, 2010)

• War Crimes - Michael Byers (LRB, 2006)

• Henry Kissinger's Cambodia legacy of bombs and chaos - Ouch Sony & George Wright (BBC News, 2023)

• Three Genocides - Eyal Weizman (LRB, 2024)

• Surely Not? - Christopher R. Browning (NYROB, 2025)

• Memory Failure - Pankaj Mishra (LRB, 2024)

• Scot-Free - Trevor Jackson (NYROB, 2025)

• A Glimmer of Justice - Aryeh Neier (NYROB, 2018)

• Shameful Neglect - Brian Urquhart (NYROB, 2002)

• A New Type of War - Michael Byers (LRB, 2004)

• I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It - Omer Bartov (New York Times, 2025)

• War Crimes - Conor Gearty (LRB, 2023)

• The Righteous Community - Jackson Lears (LRB, 2025)

• Good Vibrations - Frederick Wilmot-Smith (LRB, 2024)

• The Forgotten Crime of War Itself - Jackson Lears (NYROB, 2022)

• Genève-konventionen den 12 augusti 1949 angående skydd för civilpersoner under krigstid (Regeringen, 1953)

• Leaked recording reveals ex-Israeli military intelligence chief calling 50,000 deaths in Gaza ‘necessary’ - Oren Liebermann, Abeer Salman (CNN, 2025)

• Smotrich says Gaza to be ‘totally destroyed,’ population ‘concentrated’ in small area - Jeremy Sharon (Times of Israel, 2025)

• Public opinion in occupied Germany: the OMGUS surveys, 1945-1949 - Merritt, Anna J; Merritt, Richard L (University of Illinois Press, 1970)

• First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities - Rachel Fieldhouse (Nature, 2025)

• US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7 - Humeyra Pamuk, Mike Stone (Reuters, 2024)

• Herodotus on the Ethics of Retaliation - Elizabeth Irwin (Society for Classical Studies)

• On Tocqueville in Algeria and epistemic violence - Lina Benabdallah (Al-Jazeera, 2020)

• Israel social security data reveals true picture of Oct 7 deaths (AFP, 2023)

• Rewriting Human Rights - Benjamin Nathans (NYROB, 2019)

• How Former Biden Officials Defend Their Gaza Policy - Isaac Chotiner (The New Yorker, 2025)

• J Street head says he was ‘persuaded’ by arguments that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - Grace Gilson (MSN, 2025)

• 'With Immense Pain and a Broken Heart' Leading Israeli Author David Grossman Calls Gaza War a 'Genocide' - Davide Lerner (Haaretz, 2025)

• The U.S. military’s long history of anti-Asian dehumanization - Marie Myung Ok Lee (Korean Quarterly, 2021)

• Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants - Scott D. Sagan, Benjamin A. Valentino (International Security, 2017) 

• Statement on German Chancellor Merz’s Framing of Israeli Actions in Iran as “Dirty Work for All of Us” (The Lemkin Institute, 2025)

• FN: 21 000 barn permanent krigsskadade i Gaza (TT, 2025)

Ljud och video

• Chaos Graph (This American Life, 2025)

• Press Encounter: Secretary-General António Guterres (FN, 2024)

• What is the International Court of Justice? The Role and Activities of the ICJ (FN, 2018)

• Biden defends Israel after ICC warrants request (REUTERS, 2024)

• Could Gaza be the 'graveyard for international law'? Is the United States 'complicit'? (FRANCE 24, 2024)

• Global Breakdown of International Law Amid Flagrant War Crimes in Gaza & Beyond, Says Amnesty Chief (Democracy Now, 2024)

• ”Antisemitism & the Crisis of Liberalism” Conference, April 30-May 1, 2025, Panel 5 (Yale University)

Musik

• Kid Loco - Theme from the Graffiti Artist

• Allison Leyton-Brown - Featherweight

• Phillip Glass & Paul Leonard Morgan - Running to the Loop

• Gryphon Trio - Piano Trio No 2 in E-flat Major D 929

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Wojciech Golczewski - Setting Up

• Matt McGinley - 91 Shadow

• Sophie Harris - Exhumation

• Matt McGinley - The Officers Bedroom

• Vince Pope - Starting Over

• Michael Andrews - Peter And Sylvie

• WOW MOM WOW - Tryptoreal

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem After Problem

• Vince Pope - Who Are You

• Marcus Bagala - Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• Matt McGinely - Reckoning Weather

• Vince Pope - Touching 

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Clint Mansell - The Last Man

• Cliff Martinez - They Are Calling My Flight

• Cliff Martinez - I'm In The Pink

• Sophie Harris - Travelling Coffin

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Vince Pope - Coming Down

• Sophie Harris - Crooked Durham 

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Aphex Twin - #4

• Ben Salisbury - Estate

• Cliff Martinez - I Got Time

• Cliff Martinez - There is nothing here

• Podington Bear - Dry Air

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Too Too

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Podington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Clint Mansell - Finish It (Feat. Kronos Quartet)

• Martin D. Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• Phillip Glass & Paul Leonard Morgan - The Teacher

• Stakka Bo - We