Power and Principle: Superpower Strategic Policies in the Framework of International Law

Munaza Khalid

doi:10.59890/ijmbi.v3i5.194

Authors

Munaza Khalid Southwest University of Political Science and Law

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59890/ijmbi.v3i5.194

Keywords:

Superpower Strategy, International Law

Abstract

This article examines how modern superpowers balance strategic interests against the constraints of international law. Specifically, it examines the United States, China, and Russia and how legal rules are used, reinterpreted, or circumvented to legitimize behavior in military intervention, nuclear policy, and territorial conflict. The study focuses on the continued tension between power and principle and whether or not international law really constrains superpowers or is a mainly legitimizing instrument.

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