Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1975 (2. évfolyam)

1975 / 2. szám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata

ends if the state joins an organization which has a central law enforcement apparatus, or creates one.

It is not possible, or necessary to find legal expression for the material limitations of sovereignty which arise out of an end being put to the state of equilibrium within a system of mutual interdependence.

The legal concept need not reflect whether or not mutual interdependencies make their effect felt more strongly because of the special intensity of economic and political links, than is customary in relations between states.

A state is thus sovereign if — no other state, group of states or international organization can or does give it instructions to take up certain attitudes, or to desist from them;

— if it is not a member of a confederation or any structure that has a federal nature.

A sovereign state can

— establish relations with other states or other subjects of international law, and submit such relationships to legal regulation on the basis of mutual agreement;

— it can establish international organizations designed to establish an organized basis for these relationships, following agreement with other states;

— it can legally act in other ways as well, e.g. it can join another state, confederation or other institution of a federal nature, or else participate in the activities of an organization which has become institutionalized in this way. In such a case, however, its sovereignty comes to an end.

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