The Institutional Foundations of the New Sovereignty

In the previous chapters I have made two related arguments about the evolving balance between human rights and state sovereignty. From a normative perspective I have argued that sovereignty includes an obligation to uphold basic human rights, popular sovereignty and self-determination. In practice, the international community has taken a wide variety of actions, however ambiguous, which indicate a shift in the balance between sovereignty and human rights. Yet, there is still a great disjunction between humanitarian needs worldwide and the international institutional capacity and the will to deal with these needs. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.