A Market for Sovereign Control
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2017

Can popular sovereignty and sovereign territory co-exist? Can we imagine a world in which sovereignty territory could, like property, be traded among countries while still respecting people’s interest in self-determination? What if countries’ right to territorial integrity were predicated on a corresponding duty to govern well? And can the international system provide mechanisms and incentives to improve the status quo? These are not simply academic questions. Across the world, many regions are