Sovereignty

state, even if the majority of its inhabitants desire that. Because of the lack of express provisions in international treaties, the sovereignty of a state is based on the right to dispose a state’s territory. If a group within a state has a right to become a new state if the majority of its inhabitants desire that, there will be a violation of a nation’s sovereignty rights and will cause instability, which would contradict the idea of a “State,” and jeopardize the interests of the global…

How does the way we use borders affect our lives in the world today and the lives of those around us? Living in a world that has so many borders, physical, social, political, and mental forces us to choose between building borders up—causing conflict—or, tearing them down—bringing peace—to one another. How do we understand them so we can better navigate the roles they play in our lives? Looking at borders inside and out we are, in a way, a sort of gatekeeper for all of the borders we experience…

views on the extension of slavery were well known because he was the reputed father of ‘popular sovereignty.’ This was the doctrine that stated that the sovereign people of a territory, under the general principles of the Constitution, should themselves determine the status of slavery” (Cohen & Kennedy 381). The quote above sheds light upon the primary components of the doctrine of “popular sovereignty”, in that it re-instated the notion of self-determination. To add to this, America’s…

In the twentieth century it has been argued that on the international stage, states were the dominant actors. Donelan in the late 1970s writes that “‘State’ is central to sovereignty, war, intervention and the rest of the old list” which suggests that states were very important, fundamental even to international society. Some such as Lacher suggest that “globalisation… [is] deeply implicated in (though not solely responsible for) the undermining of the state’s previously sovereign place in…

territorial intregrity and political independence of any state. The charter rests on the principle of sovergnty and here are the international community faces the moral and legal dilemma which takes precedence in humanaterina crisis sovereignty or human rights. For skeptics sovereignty…

Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s comments that “it is time to make each level of government sovereign in its own sphere”, signals that the States of Australia will have greater sovereignty in the future, an unprecedented move that contrasts against the progressive history of centralisation, cooperative federalism and Commonwealth supremacy that began in the latter half of the 20th century and has continued to this day. Within the framework of modern day federalism two issues are pertinent; the…

would essentially be governing themselves because the guidelines of society are set up with consideration for the ‘general will’. Rousseau valued the idea of people’s sovereignty and for him the state, ‘general will’, laws, and guidelines were…

since the creation of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 AD. The Westphalian ‘state system’ saw the end to the destructive thirty-year war in the seventeenth-century, creating a peaceful resolution to end the conflict and establishing territorial sovereignty. The fundamental roles states have been assigned include create justice and order, welfare, freedom, unity and most importantly protection of the people they govern (Langhorne, 2000). In pre-history, humans transitioned from nomadic behaviour…

What is the relationship between the self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of states in contemporary international politics? 1 This report elucidates the link between sovereignty of states & self-determination of peoples therefore the focal point of this essay is to elaborate on the underlying concept of sovereignty as it incorporates the protection and the practice of various human rights as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The main goal of this…

tension between state sovereignty and international intervention in pursuit of human rights protection has been contested. Over three centuries later, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has codified human rights protection in a global political commitment of the highest order. Following the international acceptance of the R2P, many who support state protection contest the legitimacy of the doctrine, and question its encroachment on state sovereignty. Conversely,…