Guardian: One of the purposes of government is to protect public goods threatened by the self-interest of unscrupulous people or corporations. But what happens when governments fail? When they are either unwilling or unable to protect something valued by the many from the depredations of the few? What do you do, for example, to defend the bluefin tuna?
Thanks to the obstructionism of the Japanese government and the small states whose votes it has bought, international law is currently incapable of preventing…