Sneaky Treaties with Amy Benjamin

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This week Amy Benjamin returns to the Solari Report to educate us about the use of the international treaties to circumvent domestic political process and law.

Benjamin is a legal scholar and lecturer in Public International Law at Auckland University of Technology Law School. Her research centers on the evolution of the concept of state sovereignty from the Thirty Years’ War to the present and on the asymmetric aspects of the laws of war. She has published about government secrecy, international treaties and 9-11.

Amy does her usual masterful job of unpacking this highly complex, important topic. We cover:

The “quiet doctrinal war” raging around international law:
How secondary rules become law when they have not been approved legislatively as part of the treaty process:
Examples: the Paris Climate Agreement,the Global Migration Compact and the Arms Trade Treaty:
Who’s Who? Who is doing this? The role of legal scholars, NGOs and their funders;
The opposition – who has been protecting us from this weaponization of international law?;

The tie in to technocracy, secrecy, ESG, increased centralization and using legal complexity to create leverage out of thin air; and
What we can do.

Amy’s efforts to bring transparency to efforts to sabotage democratic process through international treaties dovetails powerfully with writings on how secrecy is engineered. If you have not listened to our interview with Amy on The Many Faces of Secrecy, you will find it very helpful to understand how so much of the national security state stays invisible. https://home.solari.com/the-many-faces-of-secrecy-with-amy-benjamin/