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Increasing relations between States — whether military alliances, economic partnerships and other links — have made rules of a transnational, international character indispensable. The rise of legal regimes — the World Trade Organization, the community law of the European Union, the whole regime of international criminal law — are three of many examples. There is also no doubt that the institutions of international law have become prominent. In the Philippines, the investigation of former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte by the International Criminal Court in connection with the ruthless “war on drugs” during his administration has brought the Court to the attention of many Filipinos. The Arbitral Award that gave the Philippines a resounding victory of the Peoples Republic of China have also initiated many Filipinos to the workings of dispute resolution under the Convention on the Law of the Sea. The laudable decision of Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization despite Russia’s saber-rattling, and the willingness of the European Union to consider the membership of Georgia highlight the prominence of new forms of international legal personality.
