Each country in the world, since gaining its recognised independence, has the universal right of sovereignty. However this term has had a misleading understanding of its meaning. According to the International Public Law, which is a worldwide document that stipulates general guidelines on how to manage international politics, sovereignty is known as the nature of an independent state with a supreme and unlimited power within its territorial boundaries, recognised by the International community, including the inviolability of the physical frontiers of a State (Reisman 1990). As circumstances change, so does sovereignty policies. The United States (UN) Charter (1946) states that a country has a recognised right of self determination and sovereignty; nonetheless, it also acknowledges that if international security is violated, other countries can take measures, such as violation of territorial integrity. Although, the sovereignty of countries is considered a extremely important right, it must be inalienable to a certain extent; other nations must be able to violate this right in certain situations, that might be considered of international concerning; for example, for humanitarian aid when a country is having internal issues, violation of human rights of civilian population and endangering world peace or neighbour countries. This essay will analyse the violation of territorial integrity and its potential consequences.
As said before territory integrity is subject to change. One circumstance, in which the violation of sovereignty is permissible is humanitarian aid . As stated in the Geneva Convention (1949, p.65) a country “ must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need”. It enabl...
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Before we delve deeper into this topic, it is imperative to properly provide a definition of sovereignty and lay down some foundation on this topic. There are four different definitions of sovereignty – international legal sovereignty, Westphalia sovereignty, domestic sovereignty and interdependence sovereignty. International legal sovereignty deals with “the practices associated with mutual recognition, usually between territorial entities that have formal juridical independence” (Krasner 4). The main definition of sovereignty that this paper will use is the ...