Introduction
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2020

The year 2020 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Organisation, the cornerstone of the post-war international order, and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1970 Friendly Relations Declaration, which provided the canonical formulation of seven foundational principles of international law. Yet, the current international context seems largely inauspicious for genuine celebration. Although the world order engineered by the victorious powers after the Second Wo