{"id":316744,"date":"2026-06-08T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316744"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:50:48","slug":"the-dead-end-of-us-militarism-the-world-is-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/06\/the-dead-end-of-us-militarism-the-world-is-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead End of US Militarism&#8211;The World Is Waking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>25 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, on the state of international law in 2026, power and reciprocity, the UN order after 1945, unipolar decline, US militarism, neutrality, Gaza and Israel, media framing, and whether law can still restrain great powers in a more unstable world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The DEAD END of US Militarism. The World is Waking up | Prof. Richard Falk\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/acuxR9_Z0YE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Prof. Richard Falk is a member of the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong><em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a><em> Editorial Committee, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. He also is a member of the editorial board of the magazine <\/em>The Nation<em>. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book,\u00a0<\/em>(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are\u00a0<\/em>Power Shift\u00a0<em>(2016);\u00a0<\/em>Revisiting the Vietnam War<em>\u00a0(2017);\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament<em>\u00a0(2019); and\u00a0<\/em>On Public Imagination: A Political &amp; Ethical Imperative<em>, ed. with Victor Faessel &amp; Michael Curtin (2019).\u00a0He\u00a0is the author or coauthor of other books, including\u00a0<\/em>Religion and Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<\/em>Explorations at the Edge of Time<em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionaries and Functionaries<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>The Promise of World Order<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>Indefensible Weapons<em> (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983),\u00a0<\/em>A Study of Future Worlds<em>\u00a0(1975), and\u00a0<\/em>This Endangered Planet\u00a0<em>(1972).\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<\/em>Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim<em>\u00a0was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as \u2018<strong>the best book of 2021.<\/strong>\u2019 He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 May 2026 &#8211; Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, on the state of international law in 2026, power and reciprocity, the UN order after 1945, unipolar decline, US militarism, neutrality, Gaza and Israel, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[87,865,629,88,2941,427,249,3145,2200,95,70,1025,1160],"class_list":["post-316744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-international-law","tag-israel","tag-multipolar-world-order","tag-palestine","tag-trump","tag-unipolar-world","tag-us-empire","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-west-bank","tag-world-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316748,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316744\/revisions\/316748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}