{"id":901029,"date":"2024-05-30T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/?p=901029"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:30:30","slug":"333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/333\/","title":{"rendered":"333"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The principle of <em>international law<\/em>, as the <em>universal<\/em> right that is supposed to hold in and for itself between states, as distinct from the particular content of positive treaties, is that <em>treaties<\/em>, as that on which the obligations of states toward one another rest, are to <em>be kept<\/em>. But because the relation between them has their sovereignty as its principle, they stand, to that extent, in a state of nature toward one another, and their rights have their <em>actuality<\/em> not in a universal [power] constituted [with] authority over them, but in their own particular will. That universal determination therefore remains at the level of an <em>ought<\/em>, and the condition becomes an alternation between relations conforming to treaties and the suspension of such relations.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There is no praetor [to adjudicate] between states \u2014 at most arbitrators and mediators, and even these only contingently, that is, according to particular wills. The <em>Kantian<\/em> conception of a <em>perpetual peace<\/em> secured through a league of states, which would settle every dispute and, as a power recognized by each individual state, resolve every disagreement, thereby making decision by war impossible, presupposes an <em>agreement<\/em> between states which \u2014 resting on moral, religious, or other grounds and considerations, but in any case always on particular sovereign wills \u2014 would remain afflicted with contingency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principle of international law, as the universal right that is supposed to hold in and for itself between states, as distinct from the particular content of positive treaties, is that treaties, as that on which the obligations of states toward one another rest, are to be kept. But because the relation between them has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-901029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paragraph-en","category-uncategorized","tag-concept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901136,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901029\/revisions\/901136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}