...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states joint the outlier, the foundations of the rule of law begin to crumble.US counterterrorism practices--and the legal theories that under-pin them--are undermining the international rule of law in precisely this way...
Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
foreign-policy-of-the-us, international-law, war