The post-WWII international order is not in crisis — it is in agony. And the EU may be all that remains. Read my analisys and tells me what you think.
The Nuremberg trials established a founding principle: that international law could constrain state violence and hold leaders accountable. Eighty years later, that principle has been hollowed out beyond recovery.
This essay argues that two developments have delivered the terminal blow: Putin’s wars — which exposed the inability of international institutions to enforce their own rules — and the second Trump presidency, which dismantled American commitment to the very order Washington itself built.
What remains? Arguably only the EU — imperfect, fragile, but still the last functioning institutional heir to the post-1945 architecture.
Full essay here: https://medium.com/reflections-and-realities/beyond-nuremberg-the-case-of-a-post-war-order-in-agony-ff5c88c03e30
Posted Jul 10, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC