The article examines the impact of business interests on the shaping of the US foreign-policy strategy («national interests») and its implementation in the context of the development of international law in the first half of the 20th century. The author maintains that American administration has followed the interests of financial-industrial elite in its foreign-policy strategy since financial oligarchy appeared. The process of transformation of international law is analyzed through the prism of «dominant law-forming interest» in the content of Anglo-American economic rivalry.
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