РУАЭСТ (RUAEST)
THE LAW OF FORCE AND THE FORCE OF LAW
The issue of correlation between law and force is crucial for the entire legal thought and practice. Not only the destiny of individual states, but the destiny of the whole humanity as a civilization of law, depends on the way it is resolved. This problem has acquired particular significance and acuteness in the present ‘age of global changes’. In the last years these changes occur so fast that legal systems, both national and international, are disastrously not in time with them. Thereby it creates not only a ground for a great number of legal collisions, but also regular situations when intrastate and global processes are out of any legal field. And this means moving into a space where the so called ‘law’ of force dominates, and in essence – arbitrariness, which is an antipode of law as a measure of freedom. I would like to dwell on this problem in my lecture.