As a defining trend in world development at the threshold of the new millennium, it has taken on, simultaneously, all the complexity of modern global geostrategies and international economic realities, and has called into question what have appeared thus far to be the unshakeable foundations of international law and the moral and legal aspects of the relations between countries, groups of countries, whole regions and even continents.
كما أنها ألقت ظلالا من الشك على ما كان يشكل حتى وقت قريب قواعد راسخة كل الرسوخ للقانون الدولي وللجوانب الأخلاقية والقانونية في العلاقات بين البلدان ومجموعات البلدان والمناطق بل والقارات.