New Interpretation on Peace and International Security and Its Influence on the National Sovereignty

Abstract

Establishment of international peace and security has been among the oldestaspirations of mankind. Peace and security have never had a firm concept but havechanged gradually within the years. Before the recent changes in internationalrelations, according to the system that called Westphalia Regime, peace andsecurity were regarded as respecting to the meaning of sovereign rights, equalityrights, observance of states immunity and their representatives, respect to territorialintegrity of states, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs and peacefulsettlement of deputies.However, globalization has changed the concept of international peace and security.In this period, the essence of threats has been changed so as to the threats have beenextended from military aspect to other aspects including: poverty and starvation,terrorism, smuggling and organized crimes, breakout of epidemic, uncontrolledimmigration, destruction of environment and human rights violation. According tosuch an interpretation of international peace and security, the security council of theUnited Nations which is the main organ for protecting peace and security, after theend of the cold war, has regarded humanitarian crisis, ethnic cleaning, politicalregime change as the threats to the international peace and security.

Keywords

• international peace and security
• security council
• national sovereignty and independence