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From the first appearance of the rules of international law, their mission was to regulate the functioning of the international community. Today, the examination of the conformity of international law to a system of social values that are rather commonly accepted (international ethics) and its development towards integration are fundamental issues of contemporary reflection on international relations and naturally have a strong influence on legal science. Thus, the common values on which international relations are founded are adopted as the object of analysis, but different positions on their use are invoked: either to explain the basis of international law, or to describe objectively the state of international relations and the impact of this value system on law, or finally to trace trends in the development of international law in the light of these values. The need to go beyond the classical views of international law leads us to a first consideration, namely whether modern (modernist) approaches to international law are distinguished by their completeness and accuracy. The questioning of a doctrinal view does not automatically point to a sharp innovation but possibly to the production of a new doctrine.
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