1CHICAGO CONVENTION OF 1944
The age of globalization brought about many major changes in the world. The
United Nations Organization was established to ensure the maintenance of peace and
harmony among the different nation states of the world. This essay seeks to
understand the maintenance of this peace in relation to the field of civil aviation.
A Convention that was formulated by the United Nations was the International
Civil Aviation in the year 1944 (Stewart, 2017). This Convention aimed to regulate
the aspect of international air travel by coordinating with the different nation states of
the world. This was mainly necessitated after the introduction of the idea of external
and internal sovereignty of the countries. In other words, under the civil aviation
theory, it has been opined that the air space over each country is under the sole
ownership of the concerned country (Budd & Ison, 2016). In other words, no foreign
airlines or air crafts are allowed to fly over the territory of a foreign state without the
explicit prior approval of the country in question.
In this respect, the Chicago Convention of 1944 led to the formation of the
International Civil Aviation Organization. The core mandate of this organization
focuses on the provision of the nation states of the globe to have a proper code of
conduct, regulations, procedures and standards related to air travel. In this sense, it
can be observed that the Convention was a huge success since the countries of the
twenty first century are required to follow the regulations as laid down in the mandate
(Bartsch & Williams, 2016). The original fifty two signatories decided to respect and
uphold the regulations laid under the mandate which is considered to be successful in
the recent years. For example, no air crafts are allowed to fly in to the sovereign
territory of a nation state without its prior approval (Spector, 2017). If such an
instance occurs then the concerned country has the right to treat it as an enemy vessel.
The mandate of Chicago Convention is quite comprehensive. However, an

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