Edgard Moreno Raul Leoni: Public international law seeks to unite and pacify societies

International law is the product of the treaties and customary rules and one that can only be obtained in each case and in each specific historic time of observation of these sources.

Thus, in each subject we will have to observe the treaties and customary rules and deduce comparing both similarities and similarities through a process of abstraction to general and positive law, which is closer to European International.

Now, the legal system is justified by their functional necessity in relation to society, and this society from which it derives its validity is not formal, but substantial. It relates to their suitability for the role has to fulfill in every society, which is to unite and pacify.

It should be emphasized that public international law has not in principle of a centralized power structure, endowed with the competence required to exercise coercion against that State that fails to comply with its international obligations, so the violations of international order will not be subject usually to an institutionalized response that comes from a higher authority in the territories, but the answer is rather from self titled measures taken by the injured State.

The entity referred to its own of a structure of juxtaposition, which can take a plurality of forms or shapes, and such rupture of diplomatic relations or retaliation; measures whose effectiveness depends on the entity of the international subject that adopts them.

  

As the international society is institutionalizing itself, apart from surveillance measures and international monitoring, international organizations, specifically the United Nations, through the Security Council it can decide punitive measures centralized applying Chapter VII of the Charter.

In short, the incipient institutionalization of outside society endows it in principle suitable bodies to adopt and implement certain measures against States that become offenders of the social order.