PROSPECT OF MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY

Sovereignty,The state and Multilateral diplomacy

• Sovereignty of states is the core principle of international law and the cornerstone todays international state system.

• Jean Bodin defined sovereignty as “the supreme power of state over citizens and subjects,unrestrained by the law” or as a government that can secure itself against external enemies or internal disorder

• In order to relate each other in the global political system,multilateral diplomacy is being used by the sovereignty states.

• As the relation among the sovereign country grow,International organizations were created to provide a structured framework or the conduct of multilateral diplomacy.

• All these multilateral institution laid down the rights and duties of the member states and accordingly member state willingly and consciously permitted these institutions to restrict their sovereignty in selected areas.

• For examples,The United Nations Charter binds member states to settles their international disputes by peaceful mean and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any states

• The founding of UN marked a major turning point in modern international relations.It gave definition and a new direction to the international political system,which had just emerged from a devastating world war.It embodied the post-world war 2 world order based on the principle of sovereign equality of states and nonintervention the right to self determination of territories under colonial rule and respect for fundamental human right.

• Multilteral diplomacy during the cold war was significantly affected by the success of the decolonization and the introduction of newly independent states into the international state system. After their recognition,this country divided into two bloc of politic and this affected the multilateral diplomacy between the nation in this world.

Post-Coldwar Multilateral Diplomacy• End Of Cold War introduced considerable uncertainty in

international relations nd caused confusion in multilateral diplomacy.The concept of sovereignty was outdated,The erosion of sovereignty was accelerating and the sovereign state system was expected to change and it has enter the area not only of relative sovereignty but withering sovereinty as well.

• In this era also, The UN facing with the lack of authorithy and the capabalities to undertake state building or to assist in the transition to so called liberal democracy and democratic institution building is certainly an important issues for each sovereign state.

Globalization and multilateral diplomacy• Globalization magnifies shortages of sovereignty and at the

same time it enhances the capabilities of sovereign states.Globalization makes the action of sovereign state more dependent on events outsides of it territory and the action of other states.

• Globalization also push sovereign state to delegates more authority and power to multilateral institution such as the United Nation.

Diplomacy in the 21th century:Civil state and UN

• Multilateral diplomacy is a more effective instrument to deal with the global issues of the post-cold war world.

• There was a renew enthusiasm for the United Nation in the area of international peace and security.

• But this quickly dissipated when peacekeeping mission began to failed.Many countries are increasingly disatified with this aspect of multilateral diplomacy because they believe that these missions often lack the necessary political,diplomatic and finance.

• State also turned into UN on other issues through a series of global conference.Through this global conferences it involved the NGO and IGO

• Ngo and Igo has become part of the tool in the multilateral diplomacy nowadays.For example role play the NGO in international relation regarding the international treaty to ban land mines.