Abstract

As a most certain international norm, sovereignty has been under hot debates on
whether it is an ethical consequence and what is its significance. The three traditions of international theory divide on this issue into two types: ethics of self-preservation versus ethics of self-overcoming, which are due to their different theoretical approaches and perspectives, in other words, the Tribalism in study. The lacking of common sense of sovereignty ethics not only becomes an obstacle to the understanding of international relations, but also count-acts the development of human society in general. Therefore, it is necessary to reconstruct the ethics of sovereignty.

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