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Avançados  versão impressa ISSN 0103-4014   LACHS, Manfred. O
Direito internacional no alvorecer do século XXI. Estud. av.
[online]. 1994, vol.8, n.21, pp. 47-118. ISSN 0103-4014.  During
the 20th. century, the number of States has considerably
increased and science as well as technology have been in
constant evalution. The scope of international law was
dramatically enlarged, as shown by the developping activity of
international organisations. These stricking transformations,
(which are actually reading an end with the collaps of an
international society dominated until a recent past by the
rivality between two superpowers) does explain the successes
which have been known by the codification of international law.
In the future, which can be forseen through the role played by
the United Nations during the Gulf War, one could expect the
outcome