Question

State territorial sovereignty over land air and sea

Answer 1

Sovereignty is the complete territorial jurisdiction of a country over a territory, as recognised by other countries. In the modern age, state not only includes the territory of land, but that of adjacent waters as well. There are several other types of sovereignty, however, emergent in the present day. These are called Condominiums, in which case either two countries jointly control a territory, or the territory is leased to another country, or a territory is pledged to another country as collateral against a loan. The researcher then goes into the importance of the state boundaries and that secession of states from the parent state should not in any way affect the interstate boundaries that the seceded state has with other states. Globalisation has changed the nature of populations, leaving traces of all countries in the populations of other countries. The researcher opines that international law needs to be redeveloped to accommodate such changing trends.