family of nations

Int’l law. The community of countries to which international law applies. • This term is now obsolescent. It is increasingly rejected as Eurocentric.

family of nations. Int’l law. The community of countries to which international law applies. • This term is now obsolescent. It is increasingly rejected as Eurocentric. “ ‘The family of nations’ is an aggregate of States which, as the result of their historical antecedents, have inherited a common civilisation, and are at a similar level