Constructing Legality: Delegation Diplomacy and the Politics of Narrative in International Law

Description

In this post, I examine India’s diplomatic response to the April 2025 Jammu and Kashmir attack, introducing the concept of delegation diplomacy as a form of legal narration. I situate this strategy within a broader narrative turn in international law, exploring how states perform legality to assert identity and influence how their claims are institutionally received. Drawing on examples from Ukraine and Israel, I argue that legal meaning today is increasingly constructed through narrative setting, where law is not only cited but actively choreographed to assert normative authority within a contested global order.

Period	12 Jun 2025
Work for	EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law
Degree of Recognition	International