According to CERL Executive Board Member Alberto Mora in an article for Just Security, the Trump administration’s repeated attempts to acquire Greenland, even on occasion threating to use force against fellow NATO allies, violates longstanding international legal norms. In addition to creating problems for NATO itself, the Trump administration’s actions threaten America’s treaties with the individual members of the NATO alliance. Congress must re-assert its authority to influence matters of foreign policy, Mora argues.
Alberto Mora served as the American Bar Association’s Associate Executive Director for Global Programs from 2018 to 2022 and General Counsel of the Department of the Navy from 2001 to 2006. He is also a member of CERL’s Executive Board.
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