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International Law

Abstract

Neither legislators, nor policy makers, nor scholars, either in the region or anywhere in the world, could have been aware of the true nature of the challenge facing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the recent years. Currently, the Atlantic nations lack the imagination to appreciate the complexity of the tasks arising from the drastic changes and pressing needs.2 It can hardly be expected from the peoples involved - crippled by their past, who have just become free from a desperately long pressure and who hope for their fate to take an immediate turn for the better - to be able to take into account with a clear head the historic importance of the unprecedented changes, the tasks piling up, the crisis situations, to proceed on a bumpy road under duress. Thus sometimes they may be impatient. They may occasionally be unjust as well. But it is a fact that their difficult transformation and building of a future have barely been helped by any theoretical groundwork. And judging by the present state of such endeavors, it will probably not help in the near future either.

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