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An examination of the tension between the will & authority of the international community to intervene into domestic affairs, & the internationally recognized norm disallowing interference in sovereign affairs of the state. A continually evolving concept, sovereignty as established by the Westphalian settlement of 1648 represented the independent state's right to pursue its interests by controlling affairs within its borders. In today's pluralistic international society, with its differential international power relations, sovereignty has been relativized. A continuum of justifications for international intervention ranging from pure realism to pure globalism is one means of understanding the degree of legitimation of collective authority in relation to sovereign rule. 1 Figure, 2 Photographs, 39 References. Modified AA

The relationship between a powerful United States of America and some of the central multilateral organizations in global society is an essential feature of contemporary international relations. 'US Hegemony and International Organizations' brings together a range of leading scholars to examine this crucial phenomenon. Its aims are two-fold: to describe and explain US behaviour in and towards a wide range of significant global and regional institutions; and secondly to examine theimpact of US behavior on the capacity of each organization to meet its own objectives. The study explores US behavi