ABSTRACT
States can no longer be sovereign in the traditional sense of the word. For both physical and ideational reasons, a state cannot in cotemporary globalizing circumstances exercise ultimate, comprehensive, absolute and singular rule over a country and its foreign relations. State sovereignty depends on territorialism where all events occur at fixed locations: either within territorial jurisdictions; or at designated points across tightly patrolled borders. The end of territorialism has therefore brought the end of sovereignty. 1
