“International
society stands for relations between politically organized
human groupings which occupy distinctive
territories and enjoy and exercise a
measure of interdependence from each other”.2 it is a
political community which is sovereign (not under any higher political authority). In international relations
parlance, such communities are regarded as states.
They usually consist of:
a.
Permanent population
b.
Defined territory
c.
A central
government, and
d.
Must be
independent of all other states with the
same status3
Hedley Bull
summarizes the foundation of international
relations as the existence of states or
independent political communities
each of which possesses a government
and asserts sovereignty in relations to particular portion
of the earth’s surface
and a particular segment of human
population.4