The question of international responsibility of States – the main subjects of international law in accordance with contemporary international law will be a special chapter (Chapter IX). In this same section, note the following.

International law was originally designed to comply with its provisions subjects of international law which they are addressed. These regulations do, as a rule, strictly enforced, as they are set by mutual agreement of the relevant subjects and each of them relies on reciprocity in this respect from other actors in order to extract the maximum benefit for themselves from the international legal regulation of international relations.

However, international law provides for the possibility of coercion to comply with its legally binding provisions, which is the essence of responsibility under current international law.

In international law, the responsibility, referred to as an international responsibility, understand the adverse legal consequences for the subject of international law, violated his behavior imposed on it by an international obligation, that is, committed an internationally wrongful act.

Thus, the international responsibility – are legal consequences for the subjects of international law, occurring as a result of violation of its international obligations and subjective consisting in applying to them are admissible in a particular case of international (international legal) sanctions.

In international law, it is first and foremost on the international responsibility of States. Recently (since 1969) codification of the international responsibility of States engaged in the UN International Law Commission, draft articles on State responsibility. Its efforts are making an invaluable contribution to the understanding and resolution of this extremely complex and multifaceted international legal problems.

In the domestic international legal doctrine firmly established division of the international responsibility of states into two types – financial and political responsibility. GI Tunkin, established such a unit, pointed out that “all kinds of state responsibility as a political entity, to some extent are political in nature. Nevertheless, one can hardly object to the allocation of liability in a separate form of liability. However, there are forms of liability are not related to financial compensation. Correct to all these forms of intangible liability attributed to the political responsibility. ”

But the international responsibility of States under contemporary international law, existing and developing after the Second World War and the adoption of the UN Charter, the strongest, is fundamentally different from the situation that existed in international law, in force until the First World War.

In the above-mentioned outstanding work and GI Tunkin showed the international legal development in historical terms, ie from old to modern international law. By this work we refer the reader interested in the history of international law.