ABSTRACT
THE COMMUNITY OF NATIONS The existence and application of a system of law relating to all civilized states presuppose a system of common values and attitudes-or, in other words, that vague concept sometimes called the community, or family, of nations. 1 As we noted in Chapter 2 , the idea had a firm place in the European tradition by the time international law assumed its modern form, even though no formal machinery existed through which the community could operate in the legal or political sphere.
