International Justice in Search of a Balance between Law and Politics (Part 1)

The crisis of international law demonstrates the growing instability in international relations regarding such areas as legitimacy versus legality, fragmentation versus integration, and legal asymmetry versus symmetry. The potential of these changes is so high, that makes it possible to put under question the continuity of the basic social contract – international consensus achieved between super-states after the end of the Second World War, and represented in the UN Charter and Statute of the International Court of Justice. The lost balance in international relations means the great challenge to the whole system of international justice, which should be the guardian of the international norms implementation, from the one hand, and neutral and effective instrument of legal mediation between conflicting actors, from the other. Observing conflicting trends and difficulties of the current international justice, the author consider the prospect of a new balance as achieved by complex of legal, extra-legal, and political mechanisms for the establishment of the more sustainable international justice.