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The origins and implications of the current backlash to international legal norms and institutions are arguably the most pressing and perplexing issues in international law today. We appear to be at a moment when the modern internationalist vision of multilateral cooperation and global governance is widely understood to be under assault and unraveling, and when ideas of supranational organization and post-national sovereignty are increasingly resisted.

Today it's become fashionable to disparage the United Nations...and other international organizations. In fact, reform of these bodies is urgently needed if they are to keep pace with the fast-moving threats we face. Such real reform will not come, however, by dismissing the value of these institutions, or by bullying other countries to ratify changes we have drafted in isolation. Real reform will come because we convince others that they too have a stake in change -- that such reforms will make their world, & not just ours, more secure. Adapted from the source document.

After more than two decades of war and foreign interventions, including the recent US-led military campaign following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, Afghanistan has now entered a period of transition and rebuilding. It joins a host of other countries — from South Africa to Sierra Leone to East Timor — seeking to move from a repressive and violent past to a future based on democracy, the rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights and international humanitarian law. Afghanistan presents one of the most confronting case studies of 'transitional justice', what Teitel has described as the issue of how societies deal with their 'evil pasts'.