THE UN NON-INTERVENTION FRAMEWORK: AN INTRODUCTION

This article attempts to define non-intervention within the UN international law system. The author has conducted a significant analysis of the existing normative framework of the UN treaty-based international law. The selection of norms was carried out using the methodology of ascending to legal abstractions: empirical data was collected in the form of specific norms and sources of international law; the identified norms and sources were systematized; attention was paid to the properties that unite these norms; and a definition of the norms of non-intervention in the UN international law system was developed. In many respects, the approach implemented in this article can be subject to justified criticism due to the lack of legal argumentation for the selection of norms and sources necessary for application within the framework of the specified methodology. This is explained by the norms on non-intervention, which are normatively enshrined as fundamental for the UN international law system. The specified nature of the norm-principle, which ultimately served as the basis for the developed definition, thus serves as a feature for the selection of norms and sources