LEGAL NIHILISM AS A MARKER OF THE CRISIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
The article examines the crisis of international law that developed at the end of the 20th century, which is a reflection of the systemic crisis of bourgeois civilization. Many global challenges to humanity like the world economic crisis, overpopulation, deepest social inequality exacerbate the problems of international relations. The object of the attack is international law. It is under attack not only by powerful states in the world but by other non-state "subjects" of it. The aggravation of nihilism in relation to international law, as a rule, accompanies transition periods preceding the destruction of the existing one and the construction of a new world order. Modern international legal nihilism takes place on the part of the strongest world powers and takes on more and more cynical forms. The world witness the destruction of not only the Yalta system of world order and its principles, which are reflected in the Charter of the United Nations Organization, but also the entire logic of delivering solutions to international issues set by Westphalian sovereignty.