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Power Problems • October 17, 2023 

# America Is Eroding the International Order 

The U.S.‘s frequent use of force abroad erodes the international order’s most fundamental principles of sovereignty and non-intervention. Yale Law School professor Oona Hathaway discusses the erosion of domestic constraints on presidential war powers and the increasing official resort to untenable self-defense doctrines to justify its military actions under international law. She also explains why chipping away at the prohibition on the use of force undermines international order, among other topics.

**Show Notes**

- [Oona Hathaway bio](https://law.yale.edu/oona-hathaway)
- Oona A. Hathaway, “[How the Expansion of ‘Self-Defense’ Has Undermined Constraints on the Use of Force](https://www.justsecurity.org/88346/the-expansion-of-self-defense/),” *Just Security*, September 18, 2023.
- Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, [*The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World*](http://www.theinternationalistsbook.com/) (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017).
- Oona A. Hathaway et al., “[Yemen: Is the U.S. Breaking the Law?](https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Yemen-Is-the-U.S.-Breaking-the-Law.pdf)” *Harvard National Security Journal* 10 (2019).
- Oona Hathaway, “[National Security Lawyering in the Post-War Era: Can Law Constrain Power?](https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/18004)” *UCLA Law Review* 68, rev. 2 (2021).

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##### Oona A. Hathaway 

Professor of International Law, Yale University

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##### John Glaser 

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