{"id":15627,"date":"2022-07-21T16:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15627"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:49:49","slug":"the-necessity-of-territorial-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/the-necessity-of-territorial-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of Territorial Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__byline\"><time class=\"vl-divider\" datetime=\"2022-07-19T12:28Z\">Jul 19, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__abs u-mt-se\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>In seeking to build a lasting peace after decades of mass violence, the World War II generation declared aggression the highest international crime, and made territorial integrity the foundation stone of the global order. Nothing good could come from allowing these principles to be eroded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body article__body--commentary paywall english\" dir=\"ltr\" data-page-area=\"article-body\">\n<p data-line-id=\"f999d0c9fed24686afcdb52a27b21cd6\">STOCKHOLM \u2013 After World War II, global diplomatic efforts sought to create a new international order that would prevent the world from descending into war, chaos, and anarchy again. A major part of that project was to refine the international legal order by establishing tribunals to prosecute war crimes. Hearings held in Nuremberg and Tokyo established that aggression is the \u201csupreme international crime\u201d \u2013 one for which leaders from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were sentenced to death.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"f999d0c9fed24686afcdb52a27b21cd6\">The Nuremberg Tribunal\u2019s\u00a0judgment\u00a0was very clear on this point: \u201cTo initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.\u201d Since then, the international order has rested on the territorial integrity of states. To challenge this core principle with a violent act of aggression \u2013 the supreme international crime \u2013 is to put the entire world at risk of sinking into disorder, chaos and war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-line-id=\"f999d0c9fed24686afcdb52a27b21cd6\">Read the entire article on the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/russia-war-of-aggression-violation-territorial-integrity-by-carl-bildt-2022-07?barrier=accesspaylog\">Project Syndicate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 19, 2022 In seeking to build a lasting peace after decades of mass violence, the World War II generation declared aggression the highest international crime, and made territorial integrity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-15627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}