The question for the essay is: Can states which violate international law can be held to account ?
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They can only if:
-The state surrenders and is willing to accept prosecution at its own will.
-The Security Council agrees to intervene by force or apply economic sanctions. To take such action 9 out 15 temporary states must mutually agree, this includes 5 permanent state members ( USA, UK, Russia, China, France).
-Without the agreement of the Security Council The United Nations are venerable as it has no global, military enforcement to detain states, which violate the law.
-Such intervention would also breach states sovereignty, which ironically re appears as an excuse for non-intervention. States will not intervene if it’s not in their interest.
Therefore it is clear that it’s almost impossible for states to be held into account for violating the law.
It certainly works with matters to do with “Laws of the Sea”, “International Aviation” and with most instances of “International Border” disputes. Such disputes are usually resolved diplomatically within International court of justice.
However in most cases there are some countries that constantly violate international laws and the UN charter and seem to get away with it because they are a “Super-power”. This undermines the efficiency of the international law. Quote by Vladimir Putin’’ they tell us that we are violating the norms of international law (the US and West). First of all, its good that they at least remember that international law exists’’ Therefore if no one enforces or follows the law, does the law really exists?
Justice is unproductive
