In the course of the last four decades, international law has been characterized by a constant transformation of its content and scope. At the same time, however, tendencies have appeared that threaten to distance it from the structure of a legal order to identify it with an instrument at the service of the circumstantial interests of pressure groups. The question that remains, then, is whether the transformations of international society have fundamentally changed the law that governs it or whether it is facing a process of gradual transformation within certain principles that substantially remain unaltered and that ensure the continued manifestation of its legal nature.
Keywords:
International Law, International Order, International Society, State and Sovereignty, Democracy
Author Biography
Francisco Orrego Vicuña, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile
Abogado; profesor titular de la Universidad de Chile; doctor en derecho internacional, The London School of Economics and Political Sciencie; Premio Nacional de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales 2002; Miembro del Institut de Droit International.
Orrego Vicuña, F. (2006). El derecho internacional : entre el cambio y la disolución. Estudios Internacionales, 39(154), p. 57–66. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2006.14471
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