The Substantive Essence of International Law

International law as a complex structured, hierarchically arranged and multidimensional political and legal phenomenon is in dialectical relationship with the world's material and spiritual culture, its past, functioning and development trends and has its deep substantive basis for the existence of humanity, embodying the centuries-old civilizational community of peoples in relation to each other, having a specific measure in a specific historical epoch. Therefore, in a cognitively conscious substantive approach, international law should be understood as a form of international relations regulated by law, i. e. international relations are the subject of regulation of international law, which should be considered as a dynamic phenomenon, as a continuous process — a manifestation of the universal principle of movement, when certain states of it at certain points in time are existing, an element of an unbroken causal chain, directed forward while simultaneously facing backward.