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the rules everyone agrees to until it's inconvenient, then footnotes appear.
means a body of treaties, customs, and norms that governs relations between states, enforced mostly by reputation, trade leverage, and occasional shame.
from traces to hugo grotius's 1625 work on the law of war and peace, written to argue that even nations at war owed each other some rules — the idea outlived the ships that carried it.
no world policeenforcement relies on states policing each other voluntarily.
un charter1945 document still the closest thing to a global constitution.
icj vs iccone judges states, the other judges individuals.
customary lawsome rules were never written, just always obeyed.