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2011-03-27 Africa Subsaharan

Libya revolt amended state sovereignty rule

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the fundamental organising principle in international relations has been that states are sovereign -- that they are in charge of all that happens within their borders and are not subject to external direction concerning them from any source.
That treaty was agreed upon by the Christian survivors of the Thirty Years' War, collectively exhausted after wholesale political & religious killings. It's not so much a 'fundamental organizing principle' as it is an assumption. It served to mitigate competitiveness in Europe for centuries, but in historical practice it has NOT applied to most of the world.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-27 00:34|| 2011-03-27 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasn't the principle of state sovereignty abolished in 1999 Kosovo war?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-27 03:12|| 2011-03-27 03:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Why can't the western media write such clear and concise articles about what stuff means?

Posted by phil_b 2011-03-27 07:03|| 2011-03-27 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 ...because one of the easiest pieces of accreditation one can obtain in so called institutions of higher learning is one marked Journalism. You really don't have to know anything of substance to get it. You just mimic the instructors. Just like rote learning back in elementary school.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-27 10:01|| 2011-03-27 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Why can't the western media write such clear and concise articles about what stuff means? Their goal is NOT to inform the public. Quite the opposite, it seems.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-27 15:41|| 2011-03-27 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Rise of the so-called "OBAMA DOCTRINE", where Democratic or Authoritarian, etc. Govts-Regimes can ostensibly stay in power until such time they begin violently abusing + persecuting their own people or interests of same???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-03-27 20:29|| 2011-03-27 20:29|| Front Page Top

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