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Sovereignty in the current geopolitical context. New meanings and dimensions
Sovereignty in the current geopolitical context. New meanings and dimensions

Author(s): Marius Nicolae GRAD
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: sovereignty; geopolitics; trends; nation state; Westphalian Peace

Summary/Abstract: This article addresses the contemporary issues and challenges of the international environment, from the perspective of geopolitics, and focuses on understanding how all these elements affect the states' sovereignty. Thereby, the two main research questions are the following: How the geopolitical context changed after the end of the Cold War? and What are the new meanings and dimensions of sovereignty within the international system? We considered analyzing the geopolitical context after the Cold War being given the fact that the aforementioned moment was the last one that changed profoundly the international structure. Also, we assume that the nature of state sovereignty has altered in the post-Cold War period in order to reflect new trends of a changing global society

  • Issue Year: VI/2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 13-30
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English