Double Concept Of Sovereignty

Double Concepts of Sovereignty: Redefining Sovereignty from State to Individual Arlia Kuncoro Ningrum 070710418 Azelia Trifiana 070710423 Gracia Paramitha 070710415 Sovereignty is no longer viewed as state’s ownership as the time goes by. It now includes individual which put states somewhat in a form of instruments at the services of their people, and demand for more individual right. The change from state to individual sovereignty resulted a new form of actions that can be – and indeed is needed – taken by international community : humanitarian intervention. These course of actions has been implemented to solve the dispute in Timor Leste and Kosovo in two different way but somehow it is seen as merely the most successful actions taken by international community to stop what has been happening in those areas, comparing to what happened in Rwanda where thousand innocent people dies everyday and nobody seems to care and international community is accused for being too little and too late. Taking actions that could be counted as humanitarian intervention is not as easy as people think it might be. It obviously need certain cooperation in international level. But as we all know states obviously have differences in determining their national interest, and yet humanity is indivisible. The urgency of humanitarian crises demanded universality in international societies’ actions. Thus, four aspects of intervention could be mentioned: (1) humanitarian action must be universal. (2) the need of broader definition about national interest. The collective interest in humanity is the national interest. (3) Security Council of United Nations should be able to find the common ground in building regional action. (4) consistency in maintaining the commitment to peace, as well as the commitment to war, is essentially needed. Although terms of sovereignty have been redefined thoroughly, sovereignty still continues entirely the Westphalian framework. (Graham Evans, 1998:232) The international security should be controlled by the powerful state and controversial non state actor, especially liberal institution or individual. Strengthen the ‘debts’ traditionally and develop the ‘system’ modernly. Ancient modernity perspective is still used for contending the international crises (security). References : Annan, Kofi A., “Two Concepts of Sovereignty” in The Economist. 18 September 1999 Evans, Graham & Jeffrey Newnham. The Penguin Dictionary of International relations. London. Penguin Books Ltd. 1998.