The Rule of Law in Retreat

The international rule of law is in retreat amid populism, climate change, and migration shifts which may soon shift the global balance of power, prompting international crisis. This global fate is preventable only by the improvement of the global rule of law, education, and public awareness of international diplomacy and security issues.

In the past decade the Rule of Law developments in the world have become contentious; its idea, concept, and global implementation have met growing resistance, which may soon shift the global balance of power, prompting international crisis.

This book offers insights into the globally relevant Rule-of-Law ramifications for human rights, constitutional law, and philosophy of law in the time of such considerable challenges to it. From this legal perspective, the contributors analyze the questions of independence of judiciary, liberal education, freedom of mass media; populism, and corruption. They discuss global civic education, enhanced social inclusion, violence prevention, restorative justice and other methods of civic participation that can create larger opportunities for freedom in a UN world and help overcome increased ideological division between global North and South.

Chapter 1: Corruption of the Rule of Law and the United Nations by Mallika Mahajan, Pawan Kumar Sinha, and Thomas Stelzer

Chapter 2: The Rule of Law in the Voluntary Reviews of the Implementation of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by Megan Capp

Chapter 3: Power Politics v. the Rule of Law in Brazil: A Case Study by Eduardo Pinheiro Granzotto da Silva and Newton Tavares Filho

Chapter 4: Power Politics v. the Rule of Law in India: A Case Study by Murgesan Srinivasan and Varsha Vijayan

Chapter 5: Power Politics v. the Rule of Law in the United States: A Case Study by Cora True-Frost

Chapter 6: Power Politics v. the Rule of Law in Turkey: A Case Study by Ceren Uysal

Chapter 7: Power Politics v. the Rule of Law in Hungary: A Case Study by Bernadette Somody

Chapter 8: The Rule of Law and the European Union in Challenging Times by Rita Haverkamp

Chapter 9: The Future of International Criminal Justice Cooperation: A Retreat from the Rule of Law? by Yvon Dandurand and Jessica Jahn

Chapter 10: Exordinum by William Schabas

Chapter 11: Dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli on Climate Change, Migration, and the Rule-of-Law Governance by Friedrich Forsthuber, Michael Platzer, Sławomir Redo, and Gerhard Reissner

Chapter 12: On the Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu from the Perspective of Climate Change, Migration, and the Rule-of Law-Governance by Sławomir Redo

Chapter 13: Art and Faith in the Prevention of Crime and Conflict by Marian Liebmann

Afterword by Pedro R. David†