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“The traditional principle of sovereignty which plays a central role in the foreign policies of all states, is now increasingly counteracted by the growing facts of interdependence…” Discuss.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Sovereignty, theorised by Jean Bodin and institutionalised at Westphalia (1648), claims supreme and exclusive authority over a territory. The statement captures the mid-1990s debate. The WTO had just been founded and the Maastricht Treaty had created the European Union, so a principle of law appeared to be colliding with a fact of economics. The tension…

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  • Why sovereignty is central to foreign policy
  • How interdependence counteracts it
  • Why sovereignty survives
  • India's practice
  • Conclusion
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