ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the adoption of the constitutional principle of the primacy of international law over domestic legislation - followed from the specific perceptions about the rule of law in Eastern Europe during the collapse of totalitarian regimes, constituted a major change of attitude to international law. It discusses the adequate background for the international rule of law would be, the formulation of an alternative way of political and doctrinal thinking about the essence and role of international law. The collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and, as a result, the disappearance of global ideological confrontation with the end of the Cold War, have opened new opportunities for the establishment of the rule of law in the international sphere. The challenge to take advantage of these new possibilities should be faced by governments and statesmen, but also by lawyers-both judges and scholars.
