THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF SECURITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Abstract

This article examines the legal foundations of security in international law. The 20th century was a period that radically changed both the system of international relations itself and traditional ideas about the basic principles of its organization. The result of the largest armed conflict in the history of mankind was the confrontation between communism and the free world, based on the principle of balancing forces. Even at the end of the Second World War, it became clear that humanity had entered a qualitatively new era of its development. One of the key features of this era was the recognition that the problems of national, regional and global security can only be solved by joint efforts. Therefore, as early as 1945, the issue of creating a universal international intergovernmental organization with the main task of ensuring universal peace was put on the agenda. Such an international intergovernmental organization became the UN, which Ukraine is also a co-founder of. The main tasks of international security law are: control over the non-use of force or the threat of force; peaceful regulation of international disputes; holding states accountable for aggression; support of international peace and security; maintenance of the principle of indivisibility of security (security must be one for all and the same for all). The tasks of international security law are closely related to the tasks of international law, which solves the problems of threats to peace and develops an arsenal of specific tools for this. It is a set of legal and other methods aimed at preserving peace and preventing armed conflicts and applied by states individually or collectively.