Sovereignty Relevance
To what extent is state sovereignty relevant in modern world politics?
When in 1648 major European countries at the moment signed the Peace of Westphalia agreeing on respecting the territorial integrity, the first legal status of sovereignty and international system was formed. After more than three hundred years the international community declared the formal meaning and principles of sovereignty in one of the most important documents nowadays: the Charter of United Nations. The fundamental rights of political self-determination, legal equality between states, and non-intervention in the internal affairs of others became a framework for the future policies and politics. However, it is true that no state can be fully sovereign at given time. “Absolute supremacy over internal affairs within its territory, absolute right to govern its people, and freedom from any external interference in the above matters”[1] are not the case any longer even for the most powerful ones which are not free of constraints from others. Globalization process, international organisations ' involvement, and interstate conflicts and crime are the main reasons of the new danger that the world politics faces: state sovereignty being under a question. Concentrating on increasing dependency and interconnectedness, diminishing strength of states, criminology and security, and constantly developing technology contribution, this essay will try to examine more specific reasons of the situation when state sovereignty is less and less relevant but still adequate to some extent in modern world politics.
There is no agreed or emerging consensus on globalisation impact upon the state – and such debates are only further complicated by the recent global financial crisis. The question about its consequences become a subject of intense controversy. There is a view that globalization precipitated a terminal crisis of the nation state. Others see such a claim as wild and unfounded extrapolations from
When in 1648 major European countries at the moment signed the Peace of Westphalia agreeing on respecting the territorial integrity, the first legal status of sovereignty and international system was formed. After more than three hundred years the international community declared the formal meaning and principles of sovereignty in one of the most important documents nowadays: the Charter of United Nations. The fundamental rights of political self-determination, legal equality between states, and non-intervention in the internal affairs of others became a framework for the future policies and politics. However, it is true that no state can be fully sovereign at given time. “Absolute supremacy over internal affairs within its territory, absolute right to govern its people, and freedom from any external interference in the above matters”[1] are not the case any longer even for the most powerful ones which are not free of constraints from others. Globalization process, international organisations ' involvement, and interstate conflicts and crime are the main reasons of the new danger that the world politics faces: state sovereignty being under a question. Concentrating on increasing dependency and interconnectedness, diminishing strength of states, criminology and security, and constantly developing technology contribution, this essay will try to examine more specific reasons of the situation when state sovereignty is less and less relevant but still adequate to some extent in modern world politics.
There is no agreed or emerging consensus on globalisation impact upon the state – and such debates are only further complicated by the recent global financial crisis. The question about its consequences become a subject of intense controversy. There is a view that globalization precipitated a terminal crisis of the nation state. Others see such a claim as wild and unfounded extrapolations from
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