The principles of international law are fundamental and universal laws that govern the rules of activity of subjects of international politics. These laws also act as a criterion of legality for other legal acts that are adopted by a state or a group of states in the sphere of regulating foreign policy activities.
The general principles of international law are peremptory norms, that is, those that cannot be repealed by other legislative acts and decrees, nor can they be reformed or changed in connection with any special circumstances. The main sources of international law are fundamental legal acts and regulations, the main ones include the UN Charter, the provisions of the OSCE Final Act and others.
The doctrine of international law includes 10 provisions that contain universal norms and principles of international law.
The principles of international law imply the need to search for such methods of resolving international conflicts and misunderstandings that completely exclude the use of force and interference in the internal affairs of another sovereign country.
The concept of international law proceeds from the fact that countries must cooperate in various fields with each other, while respecting mutual obligations and ensuring equality in this cooperation.
The principles of international law guard the territorial integrity and imply recognition by the subjects of foreign policy of the inviolability of state borders.
At the same time, at the beginning of the 21st century, the philosophy of a new world order began to spread in some states, the principles of which radically contradict the established norms of relations within the framework of an institutionalized system of international relations. The main conceptual principles of the philosophy of the new world order are:
The mythological messianic idea of a certain US election. In the framework of this idea (Manifest Destiny), the American people are seen as God-chosen, and the USA itself as the personification of the forces of Good, a state acting in accordance with the will of Almighty God, waging a struggle against the forces of Evil. Today, just like during the Cold War, words are heard that the United States is conducting a crusade for democracy, justice and human rights. In the neoconservative ideology, the United States actually appears as the "Third Rome." At the same time, this ideology is an example of a gross violation of not only the rule of law, but also universal morality.
Another principle of the philosophy of the new world order is the model of the new hierarchy, which actually eliminates the liberal ideas of freedom, democracy, which are declared obsolete. True, in contrast to the criticized, traditional hierarchy, a new model is proposed, built on the rule of money (the doctrine of the "golden billion"). This doctrine completely cynically undermines all the rules of law and actually justifies the emergence of a “new colonialism”. The formation of a new colonial system is directly related to the activities of transnational corporations, which are actively flocking to the countries of the "third world" for resources. The political leaders of these newly liberated countries, who came to power, as a rule, not without the help of the United States, increased their debt dependence on the United States, made fortunes, and left their nations destroyed national economies and credit debts.
The third principle of the new philosophy of the new world order is the law of power, which essentially means that international law is almost completely eliminated from the sphere of international relations. According to the doctrine, the right to use force belongs only to the "enlightened" states that will exercise it, consistent only with those rules and ideas about justice that are established by themselves.
The formation of a new world order resulted in the disappearance of real national sovereignty and some national states as subjects of politics, the internationalization of political and economic structures, ignoring the rule of law and a policy of double standards.