Concept of Suzerainty

• Author: Cristian Jura - Denis Buruian
• Position: Associate Professor, PhD, Christian University 'Dimitrie Cantemir', Bucharest, Romania and State Secretary at National Council for Combating Discrimination, Bucharest, Romania - Lawyer, Bucharest Bar, Romania
• Pages: 105-109

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Abstract:

This article approaches th

and disagreements, being also subjec

this sensitive and especially c urrent

international personality of state is re

bodies a nd structures is possible on

suzerainty, as essential element char

the community organized in the st

analyzed both the internal and exte

possible –

the characteristics of the c

Keywords:

internal suzerainty; exter

1. Introduction

Concept often used currently, grou

„suzerainty” is a term with long hist

and definition of suzerainty as co

philosophy or political science

altern

the nucleic signification of the term

organization and operation of hu

representing the exclusive right to

and/or judicial) over some geographi

Generally, the notion is inseparable

foundation of state.

The professor Gr. Geam

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nu asserted

exist

”, (Geam

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nu, 1967) whereas G

as an essential trait thereof, under

state”. (Moca, 1983)

There are many definitions of state

different schools of thinki

ng in the

organisations, specialists provided d

rather in the area of political the

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Associate Professor,

PhD, Christian Unive

Council for Combating Dis

crimination, Buc

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rresponding author: cris

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Lawyer

, Bucharest Bar, Romania, Address

cristianjura@yahoo.com.

Legal Sciences in the New

Concept of Suzerainty

Cristian Jura

1

, Denis Buruian

2

s the concept of suzerainty, which, in time, has generated severa

ject of

conventions, treaties and international mediations. I have ap

nt since in contemporary inter national law, the political and legal

s represented by its suzerainty; also

, the integration of states in ove

only for the states having the suzerainty acknowledged. Consid

haracterizing the state, gives expression both to the authority exer

state and to some directed t owards the exterior of communit

xternal suzerainty. This articles focuses on determining

–

as ac

e con

cept of suzerainty and of the limits of exercising the suzerain

ternal suzerainty; suzerain power; absolute suzerainty; state powe

rounded on defining and organizing the

society we

istory. The discussions and controversies generated by

concept were different depending on the currents

ernating in time. The great theorists in these fields trie

term depending on the elements constituting their v

human society. This day, suzerainty is a wide a

to exercise the supreme political authority (legislat

phical areas, of a group of people or themselves.

ble from the state concept, su

zerainty being closely

ted that suzerainty „

as institution, (...) appears when

Gh. Moca stated that „

suzerainty appeared with the p

er the conditions of division of gentilic order (...) a

ate. Practically, depending on the moment in time, on

the international relations, on state interests or othe

d different significations of the term, ranging from n

theory, to concepts subordinated exclusivel

y to the

iversity

“Dimitrie Cantemir”

, Bucharest, Romania and State Sec

ucharest, Romania.

Address: 176 Splaiul Unirii, Bucharest, 03013

ristianjura@yahoo.com.

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