synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging … democracies and shows that - in stark contrast to emerging democracies' foreign policy rhetoric - the "softening" of sovereignty … has become the norm. The present paper assesses this softening of sovereignty on the basis of a "democratic …

: an increasing political, economic and social interdependence, and a deep controversy between a sovereignty norm of non …-based norm, and a South-East side defending sovereignty and pluralism. Some in the latter camp tend to regard humanitarian … division, both the sovereignty norm and the cosmopolitanist aspirations may have to be redefined through new ways of thinking …

Taxation is a fundamental part of national sovereignty. The two dominant components of tax sovereignty are the ability … sovereignty are the right to determine tax rates, structures and the use of tax revenues. With a view to implementing of the WHO … decision was that prescriptive obligations were inappropriate and unacceptable, because they would infringe on tax sovereignty …