Sovereign State – The Classic Basic Subject Of Public International Law

The problem of subjects holds a central place in national and international law and is one central to the general theory of law nationally and internationally, respectively. The whole motivation of the existence of law is focused on determining the recipients of the rules it contains. It is essential to know to whom the rules, the norms and the principles of international law are applied. Contemporary international law is a system of principles and rules governing the relations between sovereign states and other derivatives and secondary subjects in relation to states, rules that represent the will of states, and respect for which if necessary it can be supplied or imposed by the use of coercion applied in individual or collective basis. International relations and international law have a coordinating nature, and not a subordinating one, as is the situation in national law, given the fact that there is no organized political power on the subjects. The notion of subject of law is common to any juridical, domestic or international order. It designates entities that have the capacity to participate in legal relations governed by specific rules of a legal order and to be entitled to the rights and obligations within it. Being a central problem to the theory and practice of law and international relations, this subject is permanently in the attention of researchers. The dynamics of life and international relations is likely to impose a scientific reaction, doctrinal changes that occur in the contemporary world, their awareness, the scientific consolidation.