POSC 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neoliberalism, Al-Qaeda, Supremacy Clause
25 Mar 2017
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Yet people need law in international settings as well as national settings. For example, they need diplomatic immunity so that they can conduct routine negotiations. This is why the seizure of hostages at the u. s. embassy in iran in 1979 was a source of so much antipathy. Historically, soldiers captured during wars have not been saved and fed as prisoners but have been killed. The era of this is not in the vastly distant past: Yet rival combatants want to their prisoners alive, and they have established laws governing. Increasingly enmeshed in international trade, countries have found a need to trade according to rules. The cases before the world trade organiza- tion may be unglamorous, but for the complainants they are an important instance of international law. The supremacy clause in article vi of the u. s. constitution quotation makes the constitution itself, u. s. laws, and international treaties supreme over state laws.
