“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
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