AJI volume 116 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

Russia ’ s invasion of Ukraine, initiated on February 24, 2022, is among the most — if not the most — signi fi cant shocks to the global order since World War II. This piece assesses the stakes of the invasion for the core principles that lie at the heart of contemporary international law and the world order that it has helped to create. We argue, relying in part on the other contributions to the October 2022 agora on Ukraine in the American Journal of International Law , that however this war ends, it will reshape, in ways large and small, the world we all inhabit. member states to demonstrate their territorial claims, including in the Falklands dispute and the Israel-Palestine con fl ict. This has now arisen in the Russo-Ukrainian war, as con fl icting declarations have been formulated by eight states under the Convention. This Essay analyzes the legal dilemmas brought by these declarations and proposes preliminary solutions. novel digital technologies, civil society have seized the opportunity pro-vided by the vast amount of publicly available evidence to counter-narrate Russia ’ s pretexts to justify its invasion within the deliberative bodies of the United Nations. This Essay explains the potential of this emerging practice to in fl uence international legal discourse by increasing the costs for actors who base their conduct on false factual claims.