Essays on Sovereignty

AbstractThe concept of a nation state has onlyemerged over the last couple ofcenturies, before this point lessadvanced and coherent statesmanaged the affairs of the populous. The nation state is the overlapping oftwo separate features. The nation is theidentity that individuals relate to withinthe society. This can exist on its own, asall that is needed is…

Coercive prevention, normative, Political and policy dilemmas             In today’s aging world where societies confront the challenges of fragility, we may often find ourselves wandering in an unsecured and uncommon place to live. Today, dogmas of war, greed, and political corruption bring us fear and insecurity. So how could we hope for a brighter world…

Identifies a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make an enforce laws without approval of any higher authority. Sentence- The name United states was used when the 13 colonies became Independent. Nation- is a sizable group of people who are united by common bonds of…

An Introduction to 16th Century Political Thought                         Political thought during the 16th century centered on the concept of the modern state, which replaced the idea of ‘two cities’, which dominated the Medieval Period. In the middle of the 1400s, the Middle Ages focused on the establishment of a modern republic within the Italian city…

            Federalism – In Brief The government of the United States is among the most unique and complicated forms of government in world history. If one looks at the tumultuous history of the United States (various wars, internal strife and discontent, periods of economic hardship) one is almost amazed that the nation survived. Such proliferation…

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”1 Winston Churchill’s famous quote aptly describes Britain’s intentions towards European integration. In this essay I shall attempt to show that Britain’s relationship towards European…

International Relations (IR) is the study of relationships between countries. The author in this reading goes into detail on the origins of IR and how they fit into our society today. Key topics that are talked about are state sovereignty, state system, the security dilemma, hegemony, balance of power. IR can affect many things from…

Discourse of Thomas Hobbes on Civic PeaceCivic Duty means just the responsibilities of any particular citizen. According to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), social scientists journeyed with a belief that humans always lived in a two-sector world viz. the market or the economy and the state or government. However, as defined…

Leviathan was one of the most Influential books written by Thomas Hobbes that use as a references by Western political philosophy basically room the perspective of social contract theory. One of the main topics that have always been a major topic in his political philosophy is self-interested nature of human cooperation, and political society based…

* AV Dicey – the people hold political sovereignty and legal sovereignty is with the Queen in Parliament. * With a written constitution the constitution defines the limits of the government’s power * UK powers of the government – while dependent on the electoral mandate – is unconstrained by any fundamental document and subject to…