Standard Deviation: Views on Western Double Standards and the Value of International Rules

Governments across the world are well aware that in their efforts to contain Russian and Chinese revisionism, the United States, with its European partners, increasingly feels the need to abandon some of the principles of the rules-based international order and “ operat[e] outside the very institutions and norms it helped create.”35 To them, the best example of this is the roll-back of the rules-b. [...] The same is true for US actions that surprise of Africans.” have crippled the appellate body of the World Trade Organization and US O biageli Ezekwesili, and European efforts to restrict the pursuit of mutually beneficial trade to Chair of the Board of Women politically like-minded states.40 Many leaders in the Global South feel that Political Leaders and former Nigerian Minister of Western states. [...] As they see it, these pose a threat to the stability and security of their illiberal regimes.47 For Beijing and Moscow, accusations of Western double standards are a useful tool in the growing systemic competition with the West and especially with the United States: They serve the dual purpose of eroding the West’s normative power while also undermining the idea of liberal universal rules and prin. [...] The rules and principles of the order may not have been implemented consistently, but “ Freedom, equality, without them, war and conflict would likely be rampant.121 Many crises and the rule of law, and the too much human suffering have been ignored in the framework of the rules- dignity of every human based international order. [...] Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye, Wintour, “UN Court Rejects UK Claim to Chagos Islands in “Statement of the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Favour of Mauritius,” The Guardian, January 28, 2021; Owen Affairs, Mr.