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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
A MONOPOLY on organized armed violence present in all civilized states is absent from international relations as a special sphere of human activity: in an absence of the so-called global governance the subjects of international relations are guided by their own interests (as they interpret them).
This does not mean, however, that the world is an arena of "struggle of all against all": several millennia of international relations taught people to maintain peace and sustainable world order without global governance. The international regimes and organizations within these regimes can be described as one of the most efficient instruments of international cooperation. Any regime can be described as a sum-total of international legal norms yet an international regime is present only where and when its norms and rules do regulate the conduct of the subjects of international relations.
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