It's your n.1, although the object is assumed. In this case, it stands for something like "a travesty of justice in international relations". The writer assumes

It's your n.1, although the object is assumed. In this case, it stands for something like "a travesty of justice in international relations". The writer assumes that certain processes should work in certain ways to produce certain outputs, and sees the current situation as something that a working system should not produce.