Here the author addresses the contemporary challenge to sovereignty: the growing discrepancy between the norms of sovereignty and the traditional legal organization of the international system on the one hand, and the realities of a world in which the distinction between domestic politics and international politics is crumbling. The author discusses the trends that are affecting sovereignty today and reexamines the dominism of realism as a way of thinking of these issues. From a moral perspective, the author highlights the two conflicting sides of sovereignty from the perspective on an individual. He asserts that the moral responsibility is to maintain and raise barriers to illegitimate intervention, define the areas, conditions, and procedures for legitimate ones, and pay particular attention to the problems raised by forcible coercion.
