At the moment, most practitioners within global politics assume that states are bound by
international law. To some, this may seem obvious in an age when news media front pages tell
stories of how a world leader has flouted international law in a recent state action. While
international law has arguably been around for centuries, if not millennia, the widespread
acceptance of international law as an authoritative source of binding legal norms is something
of a modern development.
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