Restoring world order through diplomacy

Historically, in the world of multiple sovereignties before the commencement of the Cold War, it was the balance-of-power system that brought stability into international politics: i.e., a pattern of relations among states which through shifting alliances and the use of various diplomatic techniques tends to limit the ambitions of the main actors, to preserve a relative equilibrium among them, and to reduce the extent of violence between them.

Yet, now in a globalised world consisting of much more sovereign states than ever before, law scholars tend to ask whether order was possible at all. If so, whether the system was capable of ensuring it; and if not, what kind of measures were necessary to obtain order.