The Erosion of National Sovereignty in Contemporary International Law: from Authoritarian Sovereignty to Conditional Sovereignty

Zamani, Seyed Ghasem; Talaat, Armin

doi:10.22066/cilamag.2019.87762.1528

The Erosion of National Sovereignty in Contemporary International Law: from Authoritarian Sovereignty to Conditional Sovereignty

Document Type : academic

Authors

Seyed Ghasem Zamani ¹

Armin Talaat ²

¹ Professor of Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Allameh Tabataba'i.

² Ph.D in Public International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences University of Allameh Tabataba'i

10.22066/cilamag.2019.87762.1528

Abstract

Over time, sovereignty as the supreme power of sovereign policy has been united in line with humanitarian rules. Accordingly, in the contemporary era, Westphalian sovereignty is far from its concept and it is no longer the absolute power and today is considered as responsibility. Human rights and globalization are two phenomena that have eroded national sovereignty. Human rights and the international focus on it has debilitated the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of States so that governments have been forced to adapt its sovereignty with human interests. Moreover, the phenomenon of globalization has taken the monopoly of States governance in an international sphere and leads to global governance. In this paper, it is tried to first discuss the concept of sovereignty and its transformation in international law, and then it is considered in the context of the next development in the framework of the principle of non-intervention and globalization.

Keywords

Sovereignty

International Law

The Principle of Non-Intervention

Globalization

Global Governance

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