THE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY: DEVELOPMENT AND CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS

Pavićević Vladimir (Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu, Email), vladimir.pavicevic@fpn.bg.ac.rs
Džamić Vladimir (MSc, Univerzitet Singidunum), vdzamic@singidunum.ac.rs

In this article, we discuss the idea and the legal-political principle of sovereignty and also the transformation that this concept has lived to see since the creation of the modern state at the dawn of the new century and especially in the period after World War II. As a kind of catalyst of this change, a significant role was played by supranational international organizations, which de facto and de iure have institutionalized the limitation of state sovereignty both in a formal and material sense. Equal to that, the great powers and the military alliances they founded and especially the military interventions they led have had a great influence on the relativisation of sovereignty as an attribute of statehood.

Keywords: Sovereignty, state, international relations, United Nations, European Union