National Sovereignty - an Outdated Concept of the Globalizing World?

Abstract

 Today, the changes that accompany globalization range over entire Europe and the whole civilized world, including Estonia. On analyzing the processes of globalization, people usually agree upon two important facts. Firstly, under the conditions of globalization of the world economy, the number and influence of international organizations increases significantly and international society grows stronger. Personification of international relations occurs. Economic relations leaving from the borders of a nation state and increasing dependency on each other have, induced that in addition to nation states and international organizations, many other initiatives of foreign affairs like international non-governmental organizations, private corporations, people themselves, etc. have begun to form. At the same time, the interests of these non-governmental organizations may not coincide with the interests of a nation state.