The History of American Foreign Policy Thought

Debates about the US Sovereignty in the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries

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ID12945720
AuthorsAleksei D Katkov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume19
Issue1
Pages43-59
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVestnik NSU Series History and Philology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1818-7919
PublisherNovosibirsk State University (NSU) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25205/1818-7919-2020-19-1-43-59
OpenAlexW3008434285
LanguageEN
References cited12

In the 1990s the end of the Cold War and the US’s efforts to build a “new world order” actualized in scientific discourse the problem of understanding the principle of state sovereignty. Moreover, due to the WTO accession, the discussion among United States’ scholars intensified about the preservation of sovereignty of their own state. As a result, both the US authorities and most experts advocate the inviolability of the sovereignty of their country, noting, however, that it might be temporarily limited by different international obligations, first of all by economic agreements, but this does not affect it radically and the possibility of withdrawing from various kinds of contracts remains. At the same time, the last superpower’s foreign policy actions at the end of the 20th century (interference in the internal affairs of Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, Yugoslavia, etc.) clearly illustrate the disregard for the sovereignty of other states. In an attempt to explain this policy, they argued that sovereignty, while remaining a significant principle in general, can be lost, which opens up the legitimate path to the internationalization of a conflict. All in all, despite the fact that such an understanding of sovereignty as a conditional principle, is not new in itself, the United States took some steps to extend this understanding to the whole world, granting itself the right to single-handedly determine cases where and why sovereign rights are lost

Foreign policy · International law · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popular sovereignty · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Superpower · International Law and Human Rights · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · World Trade Organization Law

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