If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing
Journal: Bristol University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

In this chapter, Chris Brown reflects on law, sanctions and punishment in international relations. He critically reviews the capacity of a praxis approach to guide us in situations when international law is broken. Brown contends that praxis is not action-guiding in the direct sense of being able to help us decide what to do in particular situations, even if it is able to tell us broadly how we should go on in the world. To illustrate this tension, he discusses Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2