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Peaceful international cooperation between liberal and decent societies is in need of an overlapping consensus, an appropriate set of principles according to which relations between societies can be organized in as peaceful, stable and just manner as possible. The principles of the Law of Peoples are the general and basic norms of political justice that regulate the relations between peoples and non-well-ordered regimes, and they ‘can and should be accepted’ by peoples (LP, VI, 3, 35, 37). They form the ‘Charter of the Society of Peoples’ (LP, 85, see also Beitz 2000, 673).
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Förster, A. (2014). International Justice and the Principles of the Law of Peoples. In: Peace, Justice and International Order. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137452665_5
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