Imagine a world ruled by law, equal for all laws, is today, as in the past, utopian thinking. We know that the international standard lacks the coercive force that would be needed to extend the principle of legality beyond our borders and international relations, now as in the past, present fairly the correlation strength of the different countries of the community international. Maybe it can not be otherwise. Some scholars argue that belongs to the identity of the various nations to defend their interests or the desire for survival.

However, the difficult international relations, the perennial conflict or the huge inequalities between populations living in different areas of the planet force, again and again, to think that utopia, in a mundi rule governing international society and serve to overcome violence in relations between countries. We are obliged to ask the right place occupies or should occupy beyond the borders of the State and posting small gains in building an international legal space as small steps toward that dream of supranational law.

Law and strength, power and legality are the poles of a voltage that appears whenever you ask for mundi standard. In this book you will find the various ways in which some of the most important contemporary philosophers and jurists have tried to resolve that tension. A story about the search for mundi standard that is developed on the terrible history of violence in the twentieth century and early twenty-first century stormy and, ultimately, a defense of international law on power politics.