International law began as a Western project — indeed, as the legal scholar Lawrence Douglas argues in his upcoming book, it has aided the Western imperial project. Its priorities have largely followed those of the Western powers. Some Western leaders cheered the I.C.C.’s arrest warrant for Putin, which it issued in March 2023, yet were appalled by the warrant for
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