Topic: Definition of State Sovereignty
hey I am asking you all what definition of state sovereignty you like best.
my reason for this is that I am part of the debate team at my school and our topic is this:
The U.S. ought to join an international court designed to prosecute crimes against humanity.
At first glance at our resolution, I think of the ICC and then I think of state sovereignty. For a good negative case against the resolution I thought I would use state sovereignty as my value criterion (u dont need to know what this means)
Since the ICC has to violate state soveriegnty in order to try certain leaders. for example, the ICC suspects that Israel has committed crimes against humanity so they decide to overthrow the israely government and try the top military officials and maybe even ehud olmert himself. This would cause mass chaos just to gather the evidence and suspects. This is why I believe that international institutions are powerless and harmful to world peace.
My definition of state sovereignty would be
A states ability to have absolute power within it's borders and have full rights to attack other individual states if the security of its own people are threatened. A state also has the choice to protect the human rights of it's own citizens but is not oblgated to.