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Sovereignty Is The Central Organising Principle Of The System Of States

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Sovereignty is the central organising principle of the system of states. Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of sovereignty has seemingly changed from one that endows states with absolute infallible rights, to one that grants them certain responsibilities.
The international system was not always arranged regarding sovereign states. Throughout the Middle Ages alternative legal arrangements governed Europe and states lasted up until the modern period. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the development of a system of sovereign states culminated in Europe. As Europe colonised much of the rest of the world was subject to the state system spread from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The current movement appears to be the gradual circumscription of the sovereign state, which began after World War II and continued to the present (Grisell, 2014). Much of international law until WWII, was arranged to strengthen state sovereignty. Although, motivated by the horrors of the Nazi genocide, the society of states forged a sequence of arrangements under the patronage of the United Nations that pledged states to protect the human rights of their citizens (Hogan, 2012).
The post-war period experienced the growth of intergovernmental organisations help govern interstate relations in areas ranging from trade to security and a host of other issue areas. The emergence of human rights as a subject of matter in international affairs effects sovereignty because these agreed upon

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