Essays on Sovereign States

With the conclusion of the World War II, the world witnessed the emergence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) with the major purpose of protecting the dignity of all human beings. In 1993, the World Conference on Human Rights acknowledged that these human rights are universally relevant and applicable and no questions shall be raised about their authenticity (World Conference on Human Rights, 1993). Nevertheless, critics from around the world oppose the universality of human rights. Therefore, this essay asserts that the nature of the human rights’ universality is questionable. In the beginning, a brief discussion concerning ...

Question 1; why was Europe such a dominant influence on the world in the 19th century?

Within the nineteenth century, Europe was considered a global powerhouse especially in the economic perspective. The production prowess and efficiency of the continent was above all the rest. There are different reasons attributed to the European dominance within the 19th century. One of the reasons was its powerful connection between market incentives and technology, which enabled it uncover the prospect of coal energy. Secondly, there emerged different developments in physics, medicine and even science, which offered immeasurable contributions to the population growth within Europe. The growth in population directly and indirectly improved the economic developments therefore reinforcing the continent’ ...

Sovereign Statehood Is A Modern Fiction That Has Been Universalized Through Imperialism And Decolonization. Critically Analyze This Statement Using Examples From More Than One Part Of The World

Introduction

Sovereignty in international relations is a concept that indicates that a state is constitutionally independent. In politics, a state is considered sovereign if it exists in a legal, absolute, and unitary condition where the state is equal to other states in international law and is not answerable to any other foreign state (Biersteker and Weber, 1996). A sovereign state has clearly defined borders within which people reside and the government of ...

Many theories have been developed regarding the international system. As such, different groups of people ranging from realists, liberals to radicals have their own point of view. According to Kenneth Waltz (1979), the international system is characterized as anarchic. In his point of view as a realist, Waltz argued that no power exists above any sovereign state. It implies that each sovereign state must, therefore, strive to keep its’ own interests above any other thing. In a theory known as “Neorealism,” Waltz states that the international system structure is based on two main principles. The first principle is referred ...

Investigation of the United Nations (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention

Over the Temple of Preah Vihear ABSTRACT

The research in this scholastic investigation intended verifying if the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention practices indeed contributed to the conflict already occurring between Thailand and Cambodia over contested border and who has sovereignty over the ancient Temple of Preah Vihear and found the existing literature more than ample proving this. With public, legal, and academic reports, the actions of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee proves it irresponsibly and with direct circumvention of its own protocols inappropriately named Cambodia with inscription on its Heritage ...

Introduction

Comparative politics deal with political institutions, domestic politics and the conflicts between countries. These elements are brought about by sovereignty, common domestic problems and challenges and cultural heterogeneity in different countries. However, globalization is threatening to undermine this. With globalizing undermining these political institutions, domestic politics and conflicts between countries, there are concerns that globalization will oversee the demise of the field of comparative politics. This paper delves into these issues by highlighting the challenges that globalization presents to the comparative politics. The challenge that globalization presented to the field of comparative politics is already visible. In the ...

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The title of the work of philosopher and diplomat Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), De Jure Belli et Pacis (On the Laws of War and Peace) (1625), does not entirely embrace the complete scope of international law; however, the work does engage its primary objects. However, the comprehension in the work is sufficient to evidence the quandary that is perplexing legal experts and scholars as well. The question being posed here is whether international jurisprudence should, one, legitimize the use of war or prohibit its use. Two, should the operation of international law predict or forbid it, and lastly, should ...

Introduction

Humanitarian intervention as a concept can be traced back to the seventeenth century. This is the time when the foundations for the contemporary internationally recognized system of sovereignty of states and the principle that such sovereign states have control over all the matters within their borders was established. Since them, the concept has been reformed to enable the international community through the United Nations to protect citizens within sovereign states from human rights abuse, civil wars, ethnic cleansing and political abuse (Piereson, 2013). Although the United Nations charter does not allow the intervention in sovereign states, various humanitarian crises since ...

- Characteristics of the nation-state and transnational entities A nation-state refers to an organized community living under one government that derives administrative legitimacy from serving an independent unit for a realm as an independent territorial entity. The term nation-state is derived from nation and state. Nation refers to a coming together of people sharing a culture and language. A nation does not necessarily assume a formal political entity. On the other hand, a state is a political legally formed entity that comprises of a defined territory, a government, a permanent population, and the ability to enter into legal relations with other states. Of note is that a government ...

Introduction

With the notion of Nation-States, nobility devised certain rules that could be respected by all others in order to avoid conflicts between them. These rules were mostly based on the principle that the princes were sovereign in their land. Their power was uncontested, exclusive and supreme within the borders of their territories, granting them authority over their subjects, the right to give laws, impart justice and even decide what religion should be followed. There was a time however when that concept was not known and rulers and kings asserted their power through terror and wits. Arming gangs or paying mercenaries ...

The American Civil War of 1861-1865 is a key event in the history of the country in terms of arising their consciousness and is regarded as the Second American Revolution after the First Revolution of 1776-1783. The War largely determined the path that United States would take as it sought to answer two questions that were not defined by the first revolution. To this extent, the civil war made an attempt to ascertain whether the nation was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or one with a sovereign national government. Secondly,the war gave an answer as to whether America ...

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?

Collapse of the Soviet Union resulted from the processes of system disintegration, which took place in the public and political sphere of the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the end of the USSR on December 26, 1991. As a result, 15 independent republics appeared on the world arena. In this paper a short overview of the USSR history will be presented along with the possible reasons for the Soviet Union collapse and description of the collapse process. USSR inherited a large part of the territory that the Russian Empire possessed, as well as its multinational structure. Between 1917 and 1921 ...

1.0 Introduction The declaration of independence was an announcement to the world by the United States of America that it (USA) was no longer among the conglomerate of nations that were under the rule of the British Empire. It had now joined the sovereign states hence just like other free and independent states it had the powers to wage war, form alliances with other nations, declare peace, carry out commercial dealings with other nations and do all other things that the sovereign states were entitled to do. This was aptly summarized in the opening statement that declared to ...