Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics:
A Theory
By
Jorge E. Núñez
Chapter 8
Conclusive remarks, limitations and future implications
This monograph aimed to demonstrate that sovereignty and cosmopolitanism can be compatible. The relevance of the compatibility between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism is key in enabling states to retain their sovereignty and, at the same time, for units of concern to enjoy a minimum set of legal guarantees recognized beyond jurisdictional differences. The application of such a paradigm to situations of crises like territorial disputes could translate into states willing to share their sovereignty without jeopardizing their respective legal and political standing. In doing so, a set of legally binding and effective principles or rules could be agreed upon between different agents in order to legally and politically guarantee the status of those affected by any peaceful and permanent arrangement.
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Different from traditional unidimensional understandings applied by legal and political sciences and international relations, the multidisciplinary approach acknowledges the complexities present in issues concerning sovereignty and cosmopolitanism and their dynamics, e.g. territorial disputes. In order to gain a better understanding of this complexity and show how the multidimensional approach could work, a set of elements, features and variables labeled as pluralism of pluralisms were advanced and characterized—i.e. agents and players; contexts, realms and modes of existence; dimensions; and time and space. Therein, in the same line of Núñez 2017 and Núñez 2020, this monograph intends to contribute to international law and politics by developing a more integrated approach to theory building.
These chapters had two simple yet fundamental premises: First, to introduce the multidimensional analysis and the notion of pluralism of pluralisms, and second, to apply this theory to sovereignty and cosmopolitanism in general and to territorial disputes in particular. The argument was not against any discipline; on the contrary, the monograph favored the integration of different disciplines that deal with the same issues. The point the monograph stressed is the current fragmentation of disciplinary studies about sovereignty and cosmopolitanism and, consequently, situations of crises like territorial disputes because of their unidimensional stances.
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Chapter 7 reintroduced a fictional territorial dispute in order to show how and why the multidimensional approach might offer a more comprehensive understanding of the same phenomena in comparison to that offered by traditional unidimensional views. In doing so, the fictional territorial dispute designed in Núñez 2017 was revisited and further described so as to make more evident how the different pluralisms individualized in chapters 4, 5 and 6 interrelate. The original thought experiment exposed that the main aim behind this monograph is achievable, at least in theory—i.e. sovereignty and cosmopolitanism can be compatible. More precisely, by shifting the paradigm from a unidimensional to a multidimensional view it is possible that (limited) sovereignty and (legal) cosmopolitanism can work together. This final chapter brings together some final remarks in the form of partial conclusions and guidelines to design universal law that can guarantee state’s sovereignty as well as the protection of units of concern regardless of jurisdictional differences, accepts some potential limitations to the theory and methodology argued for in these pages and advances some future implications.
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Before presenting these conclusions and guidelines, and in order to provide a blueprint that better illustrates how the multidimensional approach could work in a real case scenario that includes sovereignty and cosmopolitanism, the following tables give a more visual account using the fictional territorial dispute between Borduria and Syldavia over Khemed as an example.
Although the tables have been introduced separately for the purpose of this monograph and in order to offer a more visual structure, the comprehension, exploration and explanation of any real case scenario should aim to embrace all of them in multidimensional ways and in relation to variables such as time and space.
SAMPLE TABLE (1 of 6)
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