{"id":1477,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/evaluate-the-role-of-the-international-court-of-justice-in-inter-upsc-psir-2019-3505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:54:54","slug":"evaluate-the-role-of-the-international-court-of-justice-in-inter-upsc-psir-2019-3505","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/evaluate-the-role-of-the-international-court-of-justice-in-inter-upsc-psir-2019-3505\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluate the role of the International Court of Justice in inter-State disputes."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> 1945, principal judicial organ <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> only forum where one state can sue another <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> writ bounded at both ends: consent at entry, veto at exit<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> judicial settlement as the alternative to force <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> but the Court decides only what states allow, and enforces nothing itself<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>inside consent, the record is solid: impartial hearing (Jadhav) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> territorial disputes settled (El Salvador\u2013Honduras; Cameroon\u2013Nigeria) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> law-building (territorial waters, continental shelf) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> then the structural limits: consent, not compulsion <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> judgment final and binding, but enforcement through the UNSC, veto available even to a state that consented <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> open non-compliance (US, Israel) + Global South charge of Western tilt <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Prabhash Ranjan<\/b>: Russia\u2019s veto shield, yet indifference does not lessen the law\u2019s importance <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> docket still filling (Myanmar merits, Jan 2026; Guyana\u2013Venezuela, May 2026) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b>McIntyre<\/b> &amp; <b class=\"pq-sc\">Simpson<\/b>: standing widened under the Genocide Convention<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>\u201cUN\u2019s least effective body,\u201d enforcement gap real <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> against this: the most far-reaching attempt at rule of law between states; at eighty, still the archetype of international adjudication<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> the Court fixes the legal terms on which states contest; it does not police power<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> authority real but conditional \u2014 the binding constraint is the veto, not the bench<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[37],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[78],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1477","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-37","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-united-nations","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1477\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}