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International law has traditionally been, first, a law aimed at reinforcing sovereignty and, second, at taming it via the emergence of an international community. Typically excluded from this encounter is a whole series of efforts by civil society, individuals, or social movements, which help reinforcing international law's goals. International law as a normative project could significantly benefit from a greater recognition of the striking role played by non-state actors in its implementation. If international law increasingly casts itself substantively as a law of human beings, then its modes of implementation should follow suit. The idea of resistance as a rehabilitation of civil society's role could be provide the missing link. The article suggests ten preliminary conditions before such a utopia can take place. Adapted from the source document.