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The agreement between the European Union and Mercosur: What happened and what comes next
After years of blockages and renegotiations, the European Union approved the agreement with Mercosur, yet the decisive battle—the ratification—has only just begun.
Institutional paralysis, multilateral regression, and the deepening of imperial practices
International politics functions like a theatrical play: it organizes narratives, defines characters, and establishes climaxes, generating a permanent dialogue with its audience. This imaginative dimension shapes perceptions and guides specific ways of understanding armed conflicts. Through games of simulation and dissimulation, an interpretive horizon is constructed that legitimizes practices, naturalizes interventions, and stabilizes readings. It is within this relationship between stage, backstage, and audience that a scenario marked by institutional paralysis, multilateral regression, and the deepening of imperial practices is consolidated—anchored in an international law that is corroded and selectively mobilized. Act (1): Regional organizations, multilateralism, and international law First, the ineffectiveness of regional organizations such as UNASUR becomes evident, as they are unable to function as autonomous instances of political coordination and conflict containment. In parallel, we witness the hollowing out of post–Second World War liberal multilateralism, replaced by a logic of exception, unilateralism, and discretionary use of force. This process is aggravated by the United States’ refusal to submit to the Rome Statute, as well as by the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, which institutionalizes legal exceptionalism by preventing U.S. citizens from being tried by the International Criminal Court. This reveals a hierarchical international legal system, deeply asymmetric and far...
Without rules, the rule of the global gendarme
Beneath yesterday’s moral rhetoric and Trump’s barefaced cynicism today, the powers once again lay bare an uncomfortable truth: without rules or disguises, the United States presents itself as a global gendarme in the service of its own interests.