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“Illegal international relations” keep upsetting the legal and moral international field. Today, the phenomenon forms a major issue in international relations, and triggers substantial disorder. The outlining of the issue reveals the difficulties met in trying to have a global approach of it. Illegal international relations extend beyond international criminality, and the multiplicity of development factors make the issue even more difficult to grasp. The end of the old war, the lapse of state structures in certain countries, the emerging of new actors and of grey areas encourage the growing of this new curse. Even though the dangers it creates for the world balance are for long known, it is now in the hands of states to mobilize and to act towards a genuine moralisation of the international order.