ROLE OF THE SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE PROHIBITION AGAINST AND RESTRICTION ON THE USE OF FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

One of the central issues of the world order is restriction on the use of force and its prohibition in international relations as an instrument of international dispute resolution. The science of international law has played and continues to play an important role in this issue. In this article the author presents a narrative on the history of the science of international law, gives a summary of the views of famous representatives of the Western science of international law on war and its restriction in the framework of international law, and reviews the guiding principles of international relations in different time periods. In contrast, the Russian science of international law has always reflected the status of external relations of the Russian state. Thus the author also gives a summary of the views of representatives of the Russian science of international law, and underlines that the approach of Russian legal scientists differs from the approach of West European scientists, whose views consider war as the last resort, it had to be just, etc., whereas there is the interesting view of Professor Vladimir Grabar, who distinguished between war and struggle. The author notes that the United Nations Charter created a strong foundation for creating a system of international legal mechanisms, which reinforce the principle of non-use of force in international relations. In the framework of this system of international legal mechanisms the most important place should be given to international judicial bodies, including those bodies whose jurisdiction covers crimes against peace, crimes against humanity (including genocide) and war crimes.