Global Justice in the 21st Century

[Prefatory Note: The post below attempts to unravel the problematic relationship between the UN framework of regulating war/peace relations and geopolitical management of global security shaping the design of world order embedded in the post-1945 architecture of world order by the winners of World War II, the five permanent members of the Security Council ves...

Postwar Peacebuilding by Winners and Losers

Postwar Peacebuilding by Winners and Losers

Losing the War and Winning the Peace

Trump’s miscalculations relating to Iran’s capabilities together with a confusing by boastful claims of that U.S. attacks beginning on February 28 were a glorious success. ...

Video on Behalf of Euro-Med Monitor 5/27/2026

My name is Richard Falk, a retired professor of international law at Princeton University. I speak here as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a civil society organization based in Geneva, that reports on human rights throughout the Middle East and North African region with a special focu...

[Prefatory Note: The post below are my modified responses to questions posed by the Quds News Agency, a Palestinian youth journalistic network. The Iran War was widely rationalized after the fact as ‘a war of choice’ as if recourse to war continues to be a discretionary option in the 21st century. Iran’s resilience also suggests that non-defensive warfare is becoming ...