While the right to interfere is claimed to settle local conflicts, the sacred principle of national sovereignty is still invoked to prevent any intervention in countries that sell their sovereignty and their laws to the highest bidder. Those who, by simple accounting tricks, are able to export or expatriate their wealth or their activities to these black holes of finance do so only with the complicity of their own countries of origin. Because they are so good at invoking the rules of a sovereignty that is still the foundation of international relations, even if it is obsolete in practice. The fiction suits everyone, since it avoids having to face the challenge of globalisation, created in a frenzy of deregulation. To change now would mean building a real new world order.
Nobody wants that.
All the rest is only for show. Declarations of heads of state and government made at every summit never actually come to pass because no one is willing to raise the key issues. The results of the battle against money laundering, corruption, fraud and international trafficking are derisory. They represent only a tiny part of a lawlessness that is exploding everywhere. International crime has a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars every year, all of it quietly recycled in the formal economic systems without anyone really worrying.