The case America has been trying to make, ever since Russia seized Crimea in February, is that the Ukrainian crisis is a test of whether this global community of rule-bound, orderly democratic states is willing to defend its edges.
The leader of Isis has a few million fractious people of differing tribes and communities to rule.
In the 15th century some of the monasteries abandoned the strict regimen of the community under the rule of an abbot for a more liberal system in which monks could possess personal property and be governed by two annually elected trustees (epitropoi).
They have moved the world community from the rule of law to the rule of force and have set a precedent for NATO to become the new global-cop.
"We're going to live in a very interesting time in which our judges can take part in the community of nations and rule on the application of international law," she said.
"If we go back to the community of arbitration's rule, he is only able to compete in the same Cheetah blades that he was tested on in Cologne.
This argument ignores that Scandinavian countries are small and homogeneous, with traditions of community rule.
He urged me to go to the Bruderhof Web site, where I could read the community's rule of life.
This should be (but seldom is considered) a jarring, disconcerting path for a country that, more than any other, nurtured the idea of, and wrote the rules for, an international community of nations governed by the rule of law.
The Australian system requires a certain percentage of publications to be contributed across the entire faculty, which can create a greater sense of community – although the rules can be such that productive members of staff come under pressure to pump out publications.
With the decline of the Sanhedrin, calendrical matters were decided by the Palestinian patriarchate (the official heads of the Jewish community under Roman rule).
