Essays Tagged: "Westphalian sovereignty"

Discussing the claim that in today's world the idea of a soveriegn nation is no longer relevant, due to globalisation and long range weapons etc.

ethod of political rule, others are angered by what they see as a loss of national independence and sovereignty.Internal sovereignty refers to the internal affairs of the state and the location of sup ... whose decisions are binding upon all citizens, groups and institutions in society. Early notions of sovereignty expected that the sovereign should be an individual, thus vesting final authority in an ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

How Does The Concept Of Sovereignty Work Different

How does the concept of sovereignty work differently in different concepts? Martin Weber described state sovereignty as ?con ... s it involves are fluid, permeable and unstable.? Changing with the ?fluid? states it is applied to sovereignty is clearly a developing term which can be viewed in a variety of different contexts. See ... al and social internationalisation. With states losing economic, political and social independence, sovereignty of independent states has not been lost but has merely secured and adapted in light of a ...

(8 pages) 40 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Economic Globalization and the Law in the Twenty-first Century

Krasner's (1999) distinction between four concepts of sovereignty: international legal sovereignty, Westphalian sovereignty, interdependence sovereignty, and domestic sovereignty. Quiggin (2001), for ...

(30 pages) 190 0 5.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Economic Aspect of Sovereignty

state as a member of the internationalcommunity, and is, in most cases, relatively uncontroversial. Westphalian sovereignty isbased on the principle that one sovereign state should not interfere in th ... rature on globalization focused primarilyon the apparent erosion of interdependence sovereignty and Westphalian sovereignty… Stateshave abandoned or lost much of the interdependence sovereignty ...

(13 pages) 39 2 5.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Treaty Of Westalphia and The Nation State

state sovereignty was cemented by the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which established the so-called 'Westphalian system' (Moeller 1986, p72, 73).� The Treaty formalized the modern notion of sove ... interpretation of previous practice.� The basic principles of international relations in the Westphalian system are generally regarded to be: sovereignty of the state; sovereign equality of sta ...

(8 pages) 20 0 4.3 Jun/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Contemporary Globalisation has made the Nation State obsolete. Discuss with reference to political relations.

the most sound.The contemporary world is divided into geo-political space and has its roots in the Westphalian system, 'The organisation of humanity into sovereign, territorially exclusive nation-sta ... transnational political activity has emerged. Multi-layered global governance has evolved from the Westphalian system and the state retains an important role on the global stage, even if the role has ...

(7 pages) 14 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays

importance of sovereignty

Importance Of SovereigntyAlthough much criticized, the concept of sovereignty is still central to most thinking ab ... ies from interfering in a national government's decisions and activities. It cannot be ignored that sovereignty is an essential ingredient of the State as it makes the State supreme in both internal a ... e State supreme in both internal and external matters. A State can only be independent if it enjoys sovereignty. Furthermore, when one begins to analyse and disaggregate the concept of sovereignty, it ...

(3 pages) 6 0 0.0 Oct/2012

Subjects: Humanities Essays