ABSTRACT
The chapter explains the international relations have now definitely entered a phase of multipolarity, and that there is an urgent need for a profound alteration in the way the United States views the place of international law in world order. That is the context in which to envisage arguments commonly used in the United States at the moment about the need for a Coalition of the Democracies against authoritarian States, such as China and Russia. However, these developments exclude more and more the United States from the Euro-Asian landmass both economically and, eventually, politically, and so the United States has every interest in keeping them divided from one another. Onuma Yasuaki led the field with his essay Eurocentrism in the History of International Law. However, the need still remains for ontology of international society, which reveals a vision of a larger whole of international reality.
