Tu Globalista: Lo que sucede en el mundo.

International law exudes a melancholic atmosphere. What is melancholy? Melancholy is a feeling, but so is awareness that bad things happen, and they certainly will happen more often than not.

Nothing is certain: peace, friendly relations between nations, adherence to international treaties, and the safeguarding of the environment and humanity. In essence, nothing is taken for granted. The somber feeling that the world as it is tends to be different, that at the core, human imperfection exists, and with it carries a wealth of problems, international law is created thanks to what Isaiah Berlin will call the crooked timber of humanity, and international law has to deal with such crooked nature.

However, the awareness that bad things happen allows people to take pleasure in small joys, and occasionally, more often than not, good things also occur. Peace, despite its imperfections, will persist. Even if it takes longer than anticipated, justice will ultimately triumph.

Melancholy is the awareness of the imperfection of the world, and with it, the value of working hard in coping with such imperfection, peace treaties, principles, customary international law, holding the head up high, and saying that something is wrong when it certainly is wrong, despite the truth being a hard pill to swallow by states and the governments in turn.

International law has the sad knowledge that things are not as they should be, that seeking justice is hard, and that more than rage is a realistic assessment that justice might be imperfect but is the only one we have, and to construct it takes a lot of effort and many years, that seeking justice is worth it for its own sake, despite our cosmic irrelevance in the universe, despite the cosmic futility of the existence of humanity.

There is this awareness of a fundamental darkness between infinite disappointments and the wonders of life. Despite the constant presence of darkness, striving for such wonders is a worthwhile endeavor.

The melancholic life of international law at the end of the day does not need solutions to the pains it suffers. It simply requires understanding; it has the potential to be fragmented, de-fragmented, constructed and deconstructed, imperialistic and twailer, multipolar, and, in essence, unhinged.

International law is not nihilistic; rather, it is stoic. Pain will always exist, bad things will happen, and the fight for a remedy to ignite new hope will continue. It involves walking upstream with the Sisyphus stone while maintaining a smile despite the darkness and the heavy load.

International law wants to protect the joyful innocence of a world that is destined to suffer a lot.