Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Power Politics and International Law
... provisions as well. The United States assumed the role of the unipolar power in the international arena after the end of the Cold War. The system predicated on mutual cooperation, legal practice, and the promotion of diplomacy and other channels of soft power extension that resulted after the end of the Second World War were no longer necessary. The United States no longer needed to, and, evidently, still does not need to, implement policy that is always concurrent with international law. So long as there is not a sizable opposition that can take action to harm the interests of the state, there is no incentive to alter course. Rather, there is a growing appeal in convincing the rest of the world that international law ...