Montenegro and the International Community from client to "Troublemaker"
Montenegro and the International Community from client to "Troublemaker"

Summary/Abstract: Realpolitik- a tug of war between the law and politics- is a feature even of those countries with a decades- or even centuries-old stable democratic order, countries which we rightly hold as the most democratic. That contest has always been most evident in international relations, which are by definition relations between unequal parties, where force and the threat of force, and various pressures and conditions imposed by the powerful side on the weaker one are almost implicative. Although a great deal was done on the development of international law, especially in the 20th century, and although a complex mechanism of diverse regulations has been worked out to an unprecedented degree, especially within the UN, basic inequality in international relations is still taken to be the natural course of things. The so-called big powers - regardless of the shape of their dominance on the international scene: a multi-polar regime, a bipolar or bloc balance of power or a unipolar system with a single superpower - have always managed by virtue of their might and influence to find a way to enforce either their own interests or those solutions they saw as the most appropriate within the overall global balance of power.

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