> In 1989 the United States invaded Panama, taking the internationally
>recognized Chief of State of that "sovereign state" back to its own
>jurisdiction to face felony charges as a criminal defendant. This was the
>first time since Westphalia that the principle of sovereignty was
>independently set aside by one state for some national domestic legal
>objective. Previously, Napoleon had been exiled to the Island of St.
>Helena, but only after a major war and concluding international
>negotiations.
Actually, the arrest of Chief Minister Norman B. Sanders of the Turks and
Caicos Islands by the U.S. in 1985 precedes the Noriega arrest and indeed
perhaps acted as the trial run to the latter's arrest.