The Principle Of State Sovereignity In International Relations: Myth Or Reality

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION ................................................................................................................... i

APPROVAL. ........................................................................................................................ ii

DEDICATION ..................................................................................................................... iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................... iv

ACRONYMS; ...................................................................................................................... V

LIST OF SELECTED CASES: ............................................................................................ vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ................................................................................................... vii

CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................................. 1

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ................................................................................ l

l .2 Statement of the Problem ................................................................................................ 3

1.3 Purpose of the study; ....................................................................................................... 5

1.4 Objectives of the study; ................................................................................................... 5

1.5 Scope of the study; .......................................................................................................... 5

1.6 Significance of the study; ................................................................................................ 5

I. 7 Literature review; ............................................................................................................ 6

1.8 Methodology; .................................................................................................................. 8

1.9 Chapterization; ................................................................................................................ 9

CHAPTER TWO: THE PRINCIPLE OF STATE SOVEREIGNITY ........................... 10

2.1 The evolution of domestic sovereignity; ........................................................................ l 0

2.2 The international spring. External sovereignity and International jurisdiction ................ 16

2.3 The current juridical state of sovereignity in international law ....................................... 22

2.4 The effect of sovereignity international law ................................................................... 26

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CHAPTER THREE .......................................................................................................... 28

VIOLATION OF STATE SOVEREIGNITY .................................................................. 28

3.1 The international criminal court as a threat to state sovereignity .................................... 28

3 .2 The Concept of Suspended Sovereignty In International Law ........................................ 31

3.3 Major global powers and violation of state sovereignity ................................................ 36

3.4 The Effect of Terrorism and the Global War on Terror. ................................................. 39

3.5 Globalisation and the challenges to sovereignity ............................................................ 41

3.6 UN entities overstepping their mandate as a breach ....................................................... 44

3. 7 Human Rights as a threat to sovereignty; ....................................................................... 4 7

3.9 Sovereignity and the political-economic intervention in under developed countries ....... 48

CHAPTER FOUR ............................................................................................................. 51

ANALYSIS OF PROTECTION OF SOVEREIGNITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW. 51

4.1 Decolonisation and the universality of international law ................................................ 51

4.2 An in depths analysis of the current legal regime ........................................................... 53

4.4 Principle of non-intervention as a corollary principle of sovereignity ............................ 57

CHAPTER FIVE .............................................................................................................. 60

5.1 Observation ................................................................................................................... 60

5.2 Recommendation .......................................................................................................... 61

5.3 Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 62

BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................... 64