O conceito de soberania no estado contemporâneo e suas implicações na dicotomia entre o direito interno e o direito internacional

Abstract

The sovereignty emerges as a category of the Modern State. From modernity, this work demonstrates how emerged the sovereignty and as suffered vicissitudes , in a absolutist conception , as a legitimizing foundation of positive law , afterwards with constitutional phenomenon and the emergence of the idea of rule of law , the zenith in sphere internal and external to the totalitarianism and its relativity in the second half of the twentieth century . The modern sovereignty , with the institution of the United Nations begins its process of transmutation which was accelerated by the globalization process is a category that has been re-signified to suit the contemporary conception of the state, with new functions internally and externally . This new sovereignty implied changes in international law, which was classically based on a system of Westphalia. The traditional theories that explain the relationship between domestic law and international law become obsolete in the new configuration of international society , based on the new sovereignty , it is not more than one category opposite to the Law, but allows an integration between various States and international order , without a relationship of hierarchy between them.