International Relations

Sovereign entity

• The authority which allows the use of power within a territory

• Gangs are sovereign entities because they have obtained the use of power in a territory

• The monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a territory

• New Zealand is not a sovereign entity hahaha

The sovereign entity of a territory

• Mr. Spence

• Government

• Authority

• State

NOT Montevideo Convention description of a state

• Defined territory

• Population

• The capacity of for this so-called "State" to enter into relations with other states

• Government

Traditional theory of recognition

• Constitutive theory

• Authoritarian theory

• Constitutional theory

• Declarative theory

How to describe this situation

• The lack of sovereignty

• Perfect sovereignty

• Anarchy

• The absence of dictatorship

The sovereign system is working

• Yes

• No

The treaty which ended the Thirty Years War in 1646, established the modern principle of sovereignty

• Treaty of the Pyrenees

• Treaty of Westphalia

• Treaty of Augsburg

• None