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The rule of law naturally underpins the governance of society, including the international community. Globalization and the need of enhanced international cooperation, diversification of threats to international peace and security, new technologies and their impact on human rights, penetration of international legal norms into originally States’ reserved domains and, inversely, of the activities on non-State actors into the inter-State dimension, and other new challenges put emphasis on the clarification of the basic pillars of international legal order. The paper points out that international law provides substantial support to the rule of law on the national level and, at the same time, it is itself subjected to some analogous, as well as its own inherent guarantees of the rule of law. Equality before law, limitation of power, predictability of law and independent judiciary underpin, as cornerstones of the rule of law, the international legal system, too, in which they intertwine with its intrinsic elements based on consensualism, volontarism and fundamental values of international community. The paper also highlights the politicization of the concept of the rule of law on the international level and the resulting semantic disunity.