ABSTRACT
The international legal order is also maintained by the other subjects (international law actors), namely:
People in the process of self-determination (usually, the people on the road to independence), based on the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples;
The sui generis territorial entities (the main reason for this status lies in the history of these entities and in the fact that they essentially exercise governmental functions on their respective territories);
The sui generis non-territorial entities (the principal reason for such a status lies in the history of these entities and in the fact that they exercise the specific recognised missions in the body of world politics); and
International organisations (principally, intergovernmental organisations).
Regardless of the existence of the international law norms with a direct reference to the humans, establishment and application of these norms through the power mechanisms is reserved for the interstate level. Hence, in this regard as well, the states (and other subjects of international law) hold responsibility towards the other states (and other subjects of international law) at the interstate level.