Sovereignty in International Law

We aimed at highlighting in this paper, after analyzing the transformations that took place \nin the international society, the importance of a particularly sensitive and current topic for public \ninternational law, namely the sovereignty. A political and legal concept at the same time, the state \nsovereignty remains permanently into the attention of researchers in an attempt to determine its role \nin international relations governed by the international law. The concept of sovereignty is complex, it \ncan be analyzed in terms of the national law, but as a member of international society, a State \nparticipates in international relations on the basis of sovereign equality principle, which causes \nanother meaning of sovereignty, which completes the one specific to the internal life. We have \nanalyzed the evolution of the concept of sovereignty and we have identified the causes that led to \nchanges in its characteristics, in order to predict the tendencies in its development. We have \nhighlighted the aspects of the exercise of sovereignty as a result of limiting the powers of state in the \nfavor of international bodies. In preparing this article we have used as research methods the analysis \nof the problems generated by mentioned subject with reference to the doctrinal views expressed in \nspecialized papers, documentary research, and interpretation of legal norms in the field.