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Many studies examine developments in international law by adopting a temporally short and thematically narrow perspective. Due to the increasing normative and institutional fragmentation of international law, many focus on particular and transitory aspects of international law in response to specific geopolitical crises. In contrast, this essay proposes to take an in-depth, composite and broad perspective on issues of international law, drawing on Fernand Braudel’s tripartite theory of time. This theory offers valuable insights into the temporal analysis of international law. In this way, internationalists can overcome the fragmentation of international law, see new horizons, and solve seemingly insoluble problems.