ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some perspective on the evolution of international attitudes with regard to the values, and considers their impact on the prospects for maintaining international peace and stability in the post-Cold War era. It also considers the ways in which the global community has attempted to meet that challenge. Stability in an interdependent world requires a more integrated and specialized system, that is, a system in which individual states are willing to sacrifice some of the external freedom that sovereignty provides in return for a healthier and more stable global environment. Creating the security regimes necessary to achieve stability in an increasingly interdependent world has become problematic in the face of the continuing attachment of states to the sovereignty principle alongside contemporary demands for self-determination. Self-determination implies that the internal sovereignty of established governments is limited by the consent of their populations.
