the Sovereignty of States

The effect of Globalization of Law and Economy on Undoubtedly, the sovereignty is one of the fundamental components of any state, without which the state can not come into being. Statistics tells us that there are 187 sovereign states in the world the sovereignty of which is equal with each other and by it they can enforce their authority over the relevant territories. But this right has been challenged because of the emergence of some new developments and conditions within the realm of international relations. Now, all the European citizens are situated in a different position that they were in a two decades ago. They are the citizens of the European Union rather than those of a special country.This is an example for developing the concept of sovereignty in the contemporary world. As a result, the statesmen's control over their countries has been declined and they can not execute the authority within their territories as they did in the past. The main question is that how the sovereign states have been tied down by these limitations and in what source they rooted? Several factors can be enumerated in this regard. They are as follows:1. The conditions resulted from the post-cold War era;2. Enactments some rules by the United Nations and executing them by the relevant international organizations;3. Increasing the communications as a result of developing the mass media and Internet;4. Penetrability of boundaries by which the sovereignty of states have been seriously threatened.Now, the present paper tries to show how much the state's sovereigntyhas been touched and transformed by the globalization.