State sovereignty and dialectics of its evolution in the modern context

Abstract

This article reviews the prerequisites, content and consequences of the impact of global processes on the sovereignty of modern states. The object of this research is the international legal relations and their peculiarities in the current context. The subject is the conditions and forms of restriction of sovereignty of national states, as well as contributing factors. Special attention is given to representations on the “fate” of sovereign rights and variants of their transformation reflected in the scientific literature, as well as change in the vector of development of globalization processes under the influence of strategy of the countries that act in accordance with their sovereign rights and national interests. The main method of “diluting” the state sovereignty are viewed based on the general scientific methods − induction and deduction, analysis, generalization, abstraction, modeling; sectoral methods of studying global processes: political scientific, statistical, formal-legal, specific-historical, and comparative. The research relies on the dialectical approach towards analyzing the concept of state sovereignty. The following conclusions were made: 1) modern world marks to multidirectional trends that testify to the transformation of state sovereignty, narrowing of its separate spheres in the conditions of globalization, or on the other hand, change in the vector of development of the global processes; 2) there is virtually no formal legal equality of the countries set by the leading norms of international law and underlying sovereignty; however, the national states continue demonstrating the resistance to global challenges; at the same time, the most “impregnable” for leveling sovereign rights is not the economy or politics, but cultural-historical values (the sphere of humanities); 3) in the conditions of globalization, the prospect of losing sovereignty depends on the degree of resistance to external challenges demonstrated by a particular state.

The concept of state sovereignty in the modern period

“…Так, суверенитет государства рассматривается не только как политикоправовое явление, но и как глобальное международное явление. В то же время суверенитет является необходимым политическим признаком государства, что означает единство государственной власти, подтверждаемое с помощью юридических форм (законов), при этом в глобальном мире суверенитет находится под угрозой размывания, изменения и даже, по сути, уничтожения 1 .…”

“…Другие авторы отмечают негативное влияние процесса глобализации на государственный суверенитет 5,6 . Так, к негативным последствиям глобализации относят угрозу современному миропорядку, выражающуюся в тенденции «размывания» суверенитета национальных государств, его трансформации и возможной утраты главной роли в определении судеб отдельных стран в будущем [1]. Соответственно, в научной среде стал популярным тезис об угрозе размывания присущих государству функций в результате глобализационных процессов [2].…”