LAWS 3501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ant-Zen, Safe Havens, Vatican City
Document Summary
State surveillance and the international legal order followi ng 9/11. The idea of a sovereign state: concept of non-interference of state matters. Sovereignty linked w/ exclusive territorial ctrl specific geographic boundaries, gives us a ground of which the government has sovereign power: no min. area or type of terrain. Temporary absence not fatal established (e. g. poland 1919, rwanda 1961: no traditional requirement re: form of government (e. g. democratic, capacity to enter into relations with other states, entity must represent sole sovereign authority over population, territory. Independence only limited by international law itself your independence is somewhat limited by your agreement to enter into international law, infringes sovereign authority in some ways: key distinction: State recognition: no central authority w/ duty or power to bestow state status. State sovereignty to have power over your own state unless it becomes a national affair, then you have to follow international law, make and enforce your own laws independently in your own state.
