Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics
A Distributive Justice Issue
By Jorge E. Núñez
Chapter One
Sovereignty conflicts as a distributive justice dilemma
Introduction
It is arguably a truism in
international law and politics that an ultimate
sovereign, with a common legal
bond or system of norms, will govern
one territory with population. What would
happen if that one territory
and population had two ultimate and hierarchically
equal sovereigns
(legally speaking) and, at the same time, two valid sets of
norms?
Would it be possible, for instance, that Israel and Palestine
had sovereign
authority at the same time over Jerusalem? Would it be possible
that
Argentina and the United Kingdom were at one time sovereign over the
territory and population of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands? If the answer
were
positive, what would the consequences be—in terms of territory,
population, government and law?
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