On the role of wars and armaments in the formation and development of international law

This article brings up the questions of the role of wars and armaments in the formation and development of international law. The author asked himself the question, why the observance of the principles and norms of international law are sabotaged in increasing frequency today, why the UNO and its organs and institutes are turning into foreign policy instruments of the NATO states. Based on the fact, that in the mankind history the prevailing form of contacts were the wars, that the scientific and technical revolution led by the end of the 19th century to such armaments, that the idiom “Pyrrhic victory” began to become reality, because the number of cripples among the warriors and tolls among the civilian population reached such dimensions, that it could produce a demographic and social catastrophe in every state, the author comes to a conclusion, that it was the arms perfection, which stimulated the leaders of the states to take measures to found a special imperative international law base for the regulation of relations between the states and to provide international agreements with the highest legal validity.