Every country in the world has laws that are unique to itself. This being because laws are inspired from the country’s culture, history, population and religion. Therefore there is no way that each country has an identical group of laws. Therefore how can we create international laws? How can we create laws that perhaps may conform to a set of cultures, but not others? By doing so, international laws really do prioritize certain cultures, histories, populations and religions over that of others. So to what degree are international laws really international laws? Or are they rather the “most popular” or “most powerful” countries’ expression of how they believe the rest of the world should live in cohesion with each other?

I believe that true international law is something that will never be really achieved in the near future. However I do consider the idea that all the countries can come to a consensus or an agreement on certain issues is manageable. An example of this may be the Geneva convention. Even then there are certain issues that are not in the interest of certain nations for them to agree upon, therefore hindering global progress through global unity. Again an example of this may be the Kyoto protocol, through which the world essentially could lower its CO2 output, and make a development in saving the environment.

This made me come to the conclusion that countries, and more specifically their leaders, care too much about their own nation rather than the entire world they live in. This therefore would put the priorities of the nation above that of the entire world. This is seen through the lack of cohesion in the accurate global representation of international law. This can be seen through countries such as the United States and Iran being at odds about certain issues, and consequently hindering the progress of both nations, and especially their people by refusing to work together.

Through diplomatic issues of the present and especially the past, countries are hindering the progress of the world on the whole through the refusal of co-operation and legal cohesion. Through legal cohesion, countries would be able to stand together on equal footing. No country would be bigger or better than another, each country would and could have its equal say due to its legal equality. There would be no inferiority in between nations, therefore restricting global tensions and issues due to the accepted equality between nations.

Laws and legal systems may just be a foundation for justice for the individual but it is also a source of equality and therefore a source of importance. WIthout accurate global input on a concrete set of laws that apply globally on all issues, no country will ever stand on equal footing with another. Each country will have those above it and below it. Without a legal system, the world will be a huge feudal hierarchy. As much as the UN is trying to do this, it has still proved inefficient to be able to provide the world with what it needs.