International law and multinational corporations and their effects on relations between states

This study aims to identify this phenomenon ((multinational companies)) and what are the roles of international law towards this phenomenon. If there are many factors that contributed to the development and strengthening of the trends of the concept of globalization, then multinational companies are considered the most important single factor among these factors. To achieve the objectives of the study and verify the validity of its hypothesis, the historical approach was used through which we will learn about the history of the emergence of these transnational companies and the analytical approach in order to analyze the phenomena resulting from the work of cross-border companies or what is called transnational and the descriptive approach to show the most important distinguishing characteristics of this phenomenon, which has become part of the reality of countries. The study has led us to a number of conclusions, the most important of which are: Multinational companies have penetrated decision-making centers and we find the inability of countries to issue laws governing the activities of multinational companies, which contributed to weakening the state and institutions operating within the state, due to the existence of a gap between the actual reality and the legal perception of multinational companies as a legal phenomenon.