teljesszuverenitástanulmány- nagy boldizsar（teljesszuverenitastanulmany - nagy boldizsar）.docVIP

Warning: This text greatly differs from the final, published one. Only use to identify the ideas, but for quotes use the printed version! Boldizsár Nagy EPHEMERAL SOVEREIGNTYAND THE LONGING FOR THE ABSOLUTE Roadsign* Two topics are the subject of the present study. The first concerns the semantic confusion about sovereignty and is comprised of three parts. The first is an enumeration of the usual -- therefore, easily but seldom obviated -- confusion about the uses of the concept. Then delving a little deeper reveals why international law is incapable to come to terms with the content of sovereignty. According to my proposition, the main reason is indecisiveness on the question whether the origins of the development of an international system should be sought in the individual will of the states, or, on the contrary, states must find their scope of freedom within the restrictions and regulations imposed by international law and relations. This contradiction is irresolvable (but real), therefore, the content of sovereignty remains extremely uncertain, to be always corrected with whatever element was neglected. The third component of the first topic is an illustration offered by surveying Hungarian reality in the form of two questions--“Is or was Hungary sovereign” and “Who constitute the sovereign Hungarian people”--in order to prove that it is almost impossible to speak intelligibly about “sovereignty.” In the second half of the study, after evoking the image of longing for sovereignty as the ultimate absolute, an as if proposition is adopted: namely if it were possible to speak intelligibly about sovereignty as the point of departure for the sake of dialogue. That is followed by an assessment of international legal factors, which are contrary to the dogma of bloc-like, indivisible, total, and unrestricted state sovereignty, with special attention to those phenomena of the past decade that reflect the enhanced role of the international community