In the international legal prism, precisely under the declaratory theory, a state is an independent, political, and socio-economic entity, with a definite boundary, a permanent population, and a government. The most striking attribute as per the international law, however, is the ability of the state to enter into relations with other sovereign states. The question… Continue reading The Failed State: What, exactly, is the solution?
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South Sudan Under the UN Rule: Is the Sovereignty Under Threat?
In diplomatic vocabularies, UN trusteeship does not just happen out of blue. In 1945, under Chapter XII of the Charter, the United Nations established the International Trusteeship System for the supervision of Trust Territories placed under it by individual agreements with the States administering them. These trust territories included but not limited to Togoland, Somaliland,… Continue reading South Sudan Under the UN Rule: Is the Sovereignty Under Threat?