Quotes from Robert I. Rotberg

The extreme situation in Somalia favored the imposition of international conservatorship. At this point, what I have termed strategies of construction and maintenance overlap. Conservatorship may involve international territorial administration. International territorial administration, in turn, may simultaneously involve the construction of new, and the maintenance and reequilibration of surviving, institutions of state.

In Palestine, law is a confusing mixture of Ottoman, British, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Israeli legal influences.

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.