ABSTRACT
What has passed as international law has been a set of conventions and partial temporary agreements lacking the validity and strength of law. The fatal defect of the “international law” that has hitherto existed is most fully revealed by the fact that a large part of the “code” is devoted to the elaboration of the rules of warfare. The whole business of attempting to “regulate” warfare might be fundamentally challenged. All the branches of the “international law” of war suffer from the same sickness. Democracy needs something more than an appropriate ideology, a fact well illustrated by such different cases as those of Russia and China. The equality of membership rights assures in turn the democratic procedure of the international assembly composed of representatives of the component states.
