ABSTRACT
The basic concept of sovereignty in international law can only be sufficiently founded on the anthropological status of the sovereign individual who – as subject – must never be reduced to the state of a mere object. Deriving the state as an entity from the reality of the sovereign citizen will force us to reconsider some of the basic rules that so far have governed the Organization of the United Nations, in particular the veto rule in the Security Council. The voting privilege of the permanent members of the Security Council places power above law. Since the founding of the Security Council the veto privilege has been debated and questioned by the medium and smaller states. It is evident that the new multipolar world order – which is being propagated by everyone as the ideal system after the end of the Cold War – must be adequately reflected in the system of the United Nations.
