The Hague Declaration of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Meeting to Discuss the Issue of Peace and the Rule of Law in International Affairs

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Hague

A Non-Aligned Crusade for International Law?

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-247
Author(s):  
Marcel Brus
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Peaceful Settlement ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hague

From 26 to 29 June the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries convened at the premisses of the Peace Palace in The Hague to discuss the issue of peace and the rule of law in international affairs. This meeting was the start of a campaign for aDecade of International Law. This was the first occasion that an extraordinary ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement was not held in one of its member countries. The Hague was chosen to underline the historic ties between this city and the (early) development of international law. This year it will be 90 years ago that the First Hague Peace Conference was held on the initiative of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. This conference (together with the Second Hague Peace Conference of 1907) became a landmark in the history of the codification of international law and especially the development of mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of international disputes between states. The two most important conventions that were adopted at that conference were the Convention with Respect to the Law and Customs of War on Land and the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.

International ethics and international law

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Nardin
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Ethical Significance

In this paper I am going to argue a familiar but still controversial thesis about the relation between international ethics and international law, which I would sum up in the following list of propositions:First, international law is a source as well as an object of ethical judgements. The idea of legality or the rule of law is an ethical one, and international law has ethical significance because it gives institutional expression to the rule of law in international relations.Secondly, international law—or, more precisely, the idea of the rule of law in international relations—reflects a rule-oriented rather than outcome-oriented ethic of international affairs. By insisting on the priority of rules over outcomes, this ethic rejects consequentialism in all its forms.

The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
G. John Ikenberry ◽  
John Murphy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Rule Of Law

The Rule of Law and the Quest for Constitutional Substitutes in International Law

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Normative Authority ◽  
International Legal Order ◽  
Sovereign Authority ◽  
Second World

The practice of modern international law seems inherently bound up with the quest for a rule of law in international affairs. This commitment to the rule of law at the international level finds expression not merely in academic literature, but has been regularly endorsed by states themselves, particularly in the context of the United Nations. Nevertheless, the pursuit of an international rule of law is an ambition which is constantly frustrated. The institutional structure of the international legal order seems incompatible with this vision, resulting in a constant sense of frustration about the apparently ‘primitive’ or otherwise constitutionally deficient institutional structure of modern international law. In fact, despite the intensification of ‘governance’ through international institutions in the years since the end of the Second World War, it seems like the proliferation and growing normative authority of international institutions more often than not gives rise to more concerns from a rule of law perspective. In this article I not only seek to understand the nature of this rule of law commitment and the reasons for this constant frustration, but in doing so I will argue that the institutional context implicit in the ideal of the rule of law is incompatible with the nature and functioning of international law. I seek to show, in fact, how the perpetual sense of frustration felt in international law’s failure to live up to this ideal stems from the fact that the rule of law is a notion which is implicitly bound up with the political context of sovereign authority within states. To attempt to impose the rule of law outside of this context will not only result in distortion and mischaracterisation, but runs the risk also of legitimising precisely the kind of arbitrary authority which is the main target of the rule of law itself.

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