Problems of international law in the light of new military threats of the third millennium
Humanity has come to the third millennium with the threat of nuclear war, spreading international terrorism and the emergence of new military threats that have resulted from the development of scientific and technological progress. In the second half of the twentieth century, a recognized system of international norms was formed in the world, based on the decision of the majority of the countries participating in the United Nations. However, at the end of the twentieth century, as a result of the temporary transition to a "unipolar world", this system began to malfunction. So, taking advantage of the dominant position in the world, some states began to make decisions, in the field of international law reckoning only with domestic interests, often bypassing UN decisions. All this took place with the rapid introduction of information technologies into the sphere of human life and it is quite natural that some of these technologies began to be considered as weapons of the new century. At the same time, international norms in countering the use of these weapons are still insufficiently effective.