Cyprus Mail discusses the erosion of legality in power

When power increasingly ceases to recognise legality

More than two millennia ago, Thucydides captured the essence of power in international affairs. In the Melian Dialogue, when Athens demanded submission from the neutral island of Melos, its envoys dispensed with moral argument and spoke the language of power: “You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only […]