Let us remember what sovereignty means. It means a power or an authority that has the final word on all human affairs and, in the case of some religions, the fate of the universe as a whole. In the ancient world, that is to say in the early Mesopotamian civilizations, priest-king figures represented sovereignty. All the above shows that the very concept of national or people’s sovereignty faces the risk of becoming a hollow shell and that could endanger the very rule of law that took mankind more than a millennium to acknowledge as an antidote for the law of the jungle and its modern variation of might is right. The world order shaped after World War II is clearly shaken, both inside many countries and across the globe, with the seemingly endless Ukraine war, a clear case of trying to efface a nation’s sovereignty by force. Redefining national sovereignty won’t be enough. We also need to be clear about the consequences of violating it, either by segments within a society or by outside powers.