REGLEMENTAREA RELAŢIILOR INTERNAŢIONALE PRIN DREPT ŞI PRIN PUTERE
REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BY LAW AND POWER

Summary/Abstract: The essential change within the international politics occurred when the international law has become an institution of the relations among states. In this regard, there have been created the voluntarily agreed general rules, which regulate the behaviour of actors on the international arena and their right to intervene if the balance or the foundations of the international system would be threatened by various revolutionary doctrines and policies. The force and violence remain for centuries in the arsenal of international actors as common and important means within the process of conflict resolution. The term ”power” is a complex one and closely linked to the central issues of the international relations - the problem of war and peace. On this basis, the actors analyse the possibilities and potential of stakeholders’ opponent, develop the strategies of interaction, make decisions, and evaluate the stability of the international system. Finally, the category of power plays an important role in the methodological science of international relations as an important tool for their scientific analysis: there are held a series of discussions between various scientific and theoretical schools on the significance of power factor, where power is as a criterion of different models of international systems. Power politics, in usual sense, refers not only to relations between independent states, but it has a negative connotation. Recalling that it comes from Machtpolitik (power politics), this term refers to the regulation of international relations by force or threat of force, without taking into account the principles and norms of international law. It would be a mistake to accept the idea that international relations are governed exclusively by force. In order to justify certain unrighteousnesses, the violations of international legal norms are often compared with violation of the internal law, but, even in such circumstances, any rules not lose their legal force. The most reasonable solution on perspective to regulate international relations remains the law and not power, though there is not any guarantee that the latter will lose its character of norm.

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