Although Western Philosophy tends to focus on the parts in an idea, the Eastern Philosophers focus to look at an idea as a whole. Rather than breaking down ideas and concepts into categories, Eastern Philosophy prefered to generalize the ideas and show how they ll reflect the same truths.

Niccolò Machiavelli

According to the Bluntchli State is “the politically organized people of a definite territory”. • A state is an organized political community within a definite territory living under a single system of government.

The current notion of state sovereignty contains four aspects consisting of territory, population, authority and recognition.

Sovereignty in Western Point of View: It is indivisible, inalienable, universal, permanent and exclusive. Sovereign also means “above” or “one who is superior to others”. Aristotle believes Sovereign as a ‘supreme power’ of the state. According to Ibn Khaldun. sovereignty is the basis of the state.

In political science, sovereignty is usually defined as the most essential attribute of the state in the form of its complete self-sufficiency in the frames of a certain territory, that is its supremacy in the domestic policy and independence in the foreign one.

How has it changed the world as we know it? In 1948 the Declaration was signed to prevent the horrors of WWII from re-occurring. Now 198 countries allow women to vote, compared to 91 in 1948, 57 per cent of countries have a human rights institution and 111 countries have adopted press freedom laws.

Sovereignty issues arise if those organizations usurp the powers of self-governing nations. The International Criminal Court, for example, has attempted to assert jurisdiction over citizens of states that never agreed to the court’s statute.

Nations and Nation-States There are some States which have two nations, such as Canada and Belgium. Even with its multicultural society, the United States is also referred to as a nation-state because of the shared American “culture.” There are nations without States.