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The high costs of abandoning international law

By Jeffrey D. Sachs   March 06, 2017 | The Boston Globe

Even before Donald Trump put America first, the Republican Party had largely walked away from international treaty law. Now Trump’s “America First” is likely to mean a further denigration of international law and process, to the further detriment of America’s national security and long-term interests.
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