Conclusion New Agenda, and New Client-States for the International Court

Abstract

International Judicial Settlement, as a prime mode of international conflicts-resolution, was launched as a legal concept by Continental European (including Imperial Russian) jurists towards the close of the 19th century. Concretised in international legal form in the “old”, Permanent Court of International Justice, it acquired an essentially Eurocentrist image in the between-the-two-World-Wars era, with a clientèle drawn largely from the Western European states and a docket that was limited essentially to intra-European cases, — very often cases involving the application and enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles and the related European Peace Treaties of 1919 that established the between-the-World Wars, European-based, World political system and World political balance of power.