Justifying Shared Sovereignty

SOVEREIGNTY SHARING is an extraordinary phenomenon. Arrangements that allow foreigners to carry out core domestic functions, such as patrolling city streets or issuing criminal verdicts, fly in the face of the conventional understanding of state sovereignty. They challenge the principle that domestic actors should hold such authority, which lies at the heart of the anticolonial agenda in the Global South. Sovereignty sharing therefore raises important normative concerns, and is bound to engender controversy. When can the practice be justified and regarded as legitimate? This chapter begins by discussing the major rationales for sovereignty sharing. These include the dire governance needs