A Bird’s Eye View of International Law in the Twentieth Century: From the Hague Peace Conference to the Kyoto Protocol

Abstract

After having had a decade to digest the developments in international law during the twentieth century it may be an opportune moment to give a bird’s eye view of these developments. These developments can be roughly divided into four periods: 1899 to the end of World War I; the period between the two World Wars; 1946 to the fall of the Berlin Wall during 1989; and lastly the demise of the Soviet Union to the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during 1998.