Supranational International Organizations and the Problem of Sovereignty of Member States

Abstract

This article examines the problem of supranational and the sovereignty of member states of international organizations. The issue of supranational of an international organization remains acute in the age of globalization when states are compelled to create international organizations to attain their objectives. States refer to the international organization a certain number of questions on which relations between them had been previously of a bilateral or multilateral character. After the consolidation of such questions into a treaty they become a subject of competence of the international organization. The states not only determine the competence of the international organization, but they also coordinate the division between its organs. The derivative character of the supranational organization`s competence becomes apparent in the fact that its institutions realize their competences within the limits and on conditions established by the constituent treaties.