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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Venezuela, Greenland and The Donroe Doctrine: Power without Law
Description: Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says of President Trump that âthe part he likes about the phrase âDonroe Doctrineâ is the word âDonâ -Â Â he doesnât do doctrineâ but the abduction of the sitting Venezuelan President Maduro and repeated explicit threats to acquire Greenland, by force if necessary, from Trump, Vance and the increasingly unhinged US Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller would appear to signal the end of any hope for the continuation of a rules-based global order.Â
To discuss the implications for public international law of Trumpâs open contempt for the idea that he sh...