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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18924362 |
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- <p><span lang="EN-US">In January 2026, two “death sentences” for the global order were issued in rapid succession.</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The first was delivered by U.S. President Donald Trump during an interview with <em>The New York Times</em>, where he dropped this bombshell: <strong>“I don’t need international law. The only thing that stops me is my own sense of morality.”</strong></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The second came from a man long considered the honor student of liberal internationalism — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. On January 20 at Davos, he stated quietly but firmly: <strong>“The rules-based international order is finished. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”</strong></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">Liberal legal scholars and the media are lamenting the arrival of a “lawless era.” But their grief is exactly what Prime Minister Carney calls “living within a lie.” The world has not become lawless. Rather, the modern “Law of Nations” — the fiction of sovereign equality based on the UN Charter — has collapsed. In its place, we have returned to a much older, colder code: <strong>The Law of Great Kings.</strong></span></p> <p> </p>