ABSTRACT

The MSNS search for sovereignty amplifies and echoes the individual’s pursuit for longer life. Without political order embedded as actualized sovereignty [Sa], the state is but a set of claims on territory and population. A state can be taken seriously by its citizens and other states only when it rests on an institutional foundation that guarantees a greater and more constant measure of human security for human units (individuals/persons) than is possible in the condition of raw nature or conditions of society. As evident from the formation of the QLS1 and several dynastic renewals of the ICS2, actualization of sovereignty requires coercion in the form of demonstration and threat of damage to resisters of that sovereignty. Wars have historically been the chief vehicles of actualized sovereignty, involving long-term and short-term losses of human security by significant numbers of individuals/persons/citizens.