Five levels of international legal mythology (continuation)
Journal: Electronic supplement to Russian Juridical Journal
Year: 2019

This article continues the article «International Law as a Mythology», which states that the descriptive ideas used by international law distort reality and are, therefore, myths. The mythological structure of international law consists of five levels. At the first (fundamental) level, there are the ideas of sovereignty and human rights, which have a basis in the Christian doctrine of the will and were finally approved during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern history (the 16th an