Abstract
<jats:p>Civilizational antagonism, dehumanization and moral neutrality of law are analyzed as the main challenges to public international law and international criminal law. Civilizational antagonism grew out of political and legal transformations that took place under the influence of the strengthening of the consumerist nature of the modern world, the globalization of relations between states and other world subjects, the creation of supranational state-monopoly formations (transnational corporations), and the obsessive desire of a number of Western states to impose their ideas about the world order and living standards on the world. Behind the human rights rhetoric, more and more new interpretations of previous legal norms, far from the original meaning, are being born, behind which lies the lack of spirituality and dehumanization of international relations, the public legalization of social immorality. law and international criminal law have become mechanisms for strengthening the moral neutrality of modern states, their equal tolerance for good and evil, for social institutions and actions of any spiritual content. This is the path of degeneration and death of humanity. The practice of humanitarian interventions has become a manifestation of the deformations of international law. The preservation of each nation’s spiritual and moral basis and traditional values requires the restructuring of public international law and modern international criminal law on the basis of spiritual, moral, political and legal imperatives.</jats:p>