ISBN : 9782296549876

REGIONAL AUTONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK


1. The Modern Paradigm: Politics, Domestic and International, as a Privilege of Sovereignty Modernity adopted a model of social and political organization in the terms of which international relations constitutes a reserve of sovereignty. Accordingly, it is an exclusive interest of States who, alone, are competent to develop them. So much so that international relations are, by definition, relations between States, and something that only States are empowered to develop. In contraposition to the medieval paradigm, the conceptual and political map adopted by modernity points to a planet that is entirely made up of States, each one jealous of its sovereignty, both within itself and in the framework of the relations it develops with the other States in which humanity organizes and constitutes itself - all of them equally sovereign. In broad strokes, and for our...