Document Type : Research Paper
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Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran M_Ansarian@pnu.ac.ir
Abstract
The writings produced following research and studies in the field of the history of international law are usually partial and isolated. If only the history of relations between countries or ultimately the extent of countries' adherence to international principles and rules and treaties concluded with other states were addressed. The research explored and examined in this regard the question of what conceptual changes the institution of the state has undergone in its historical process in international law. In fact, the purpose of the research is to explain and describe important and influential concepts and their role in historical developments in international law. As a result, the behavior of states in the international system and the history of international relations are not explained. Rather, we examine the historical process of developments in international law and its most important actor, the state, from a conceptual and formal perspective. In the discourse of international law, the state in its most primitive form had the characteristics of personalism and feudalism, but after the emergence of new concepts in public law resulting from the thinking and wisdom of lawyers, it reached statism and the creation of a nation of states. Then, after the emergence of new concepts and their experience in the process of international relations, interdependence entered. Mastering human rights and a humanistic approach to international law and analyzing the behavior and performance of states with human rights criteria is the latest stage in the state transition process.
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