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Comment: Sovereign Nation State and International concern for Human Rights.

  • UPSC 1994
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Since Jean Bodin and the Peace of Westphalia (1648), sovereignty has meant supreme authority within a territory, free of outside interference. How a ruler treated his subjects was his own business. International human rights reverse this premise by making a state's treatment of its own people a matter of legitimate international concern. The relationship between…

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  • The founding contradiction
  • How international concern has eroded sovereignty
  • Why sovereignty persists
  • India's position
  • Conclusion
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