ABSTRACT
The great liistoricists in Germany and England were fascinated with lawmaking, though the self-imposed terms of their very mystical approach virtually excluded the possibility of international law. The problem of lawmaking has always been more urgent and, apparently, more complicated in international law. Intimately related to the question of lawmaking, and of an equal importance to practitioner and scholar, is the question of when and how a law terminates. Parallel to the burst of interstitial channels ol communication, there has been an explosion of official channels with specific political and lawmaking relevance. The struggle over the soi-disant New International Information Order, a euphemism for a program to consolidate official elite control over the content of transnational communications, indicates the awareness and ambition of the international politician. Modalities of communication would exhibit a similarly wide variety, in terms of instrument and degree of persuasion or coercion.
