Trump, Conquest, & the Laws of War

Oona Hathaway, professor of international law at Yale University, addresses President Trump’s plans to expand US territory into Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada. She discusses international law, the causes of the decline in interstate war, the difference between norms and laws, the problem of enforcement, tensions between norms against conquest and the need for a negotiated peace in the Russia-Ukraine war, among other topics. Show Notes Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World , Simon & Schuster, 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Trump, Conquest, & the Laws of War is an episode from Power Problems by The Cato Institute.

This episode is 42:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 4, 2025.

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