the development and career of modern states have been influenced largely by dictate of self-interests. In scramble for supremacy in international relations, nation had sacrificed the lives of their people, their time and energies. The horrible results of these rivalries have led men to turn the ideal of a world where differences will be settled by peaceful means.
The basis has been provided in the settled rules and customs by which nations, trough diplomatic channels, settle there controversies and in the formation of rule and customs know as international law.