Divided Sovereignty

Carmen E. Pavel is a political theorist who specializes in contemporary political philosophy and the history of political thought. Her interests include liberal theory and contemporary challenges to it, ethics and public policy, international justice, the authority of international institutions, and environmental ethics. She is Lecturer in International Politics and Director of the BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Programme King's College London.

• Introduction 1. Why Divided Sovereignty?2. Method and Justification3. Outline of the Book Chapter 1 Sovereignty, the Social Contract, and the Incompleteness of the State System 1. The Institutions of the Social Contract2. On Sovereignty and Delegation of Authority 3. Problems of Institutional Design 4. Conceptual and practical Hurdles to Divided Sovereignty 5. Conclusion Chapter 2 Divided Sovereignty: the Principal-Agent Model 1. Sovereignty Limiting Norms and their Current Effects 2. Divided Sovereignty: The Principal-Agent Model 2.1 The Origins of the Model2.2 The Principle-Agent Model for International Institutions 2.3 Delegation2.4 The Role of Consent 3. Agency Costs at the International Level 4. Why Use Principal-Agent Theory? 5. ConclusionChapter 3 Domestic and International Implications: Slavery, Genocide and Civil War1. The Scope and Limits of International Authority 2. Constitutional Interpretation and Change3. Slavery 4. Genocide 5. Civil Wars and Failed States 6. Conclusion Chapter 4 Theories and Institutional Facts 1. One Step Theorizing: Cosmopolitan Justice 2. Two Step Theorizing: The Case of Humanitarian Intervention 3. Objections 4. Conclusion Chapter 5 Romanticizing Institutions 1. Cosmopolitan Global Democracy 2. Rule of Law Experiments 3. Rule of Law for Global Democracy 4. Institutional Assumptions and Bureaucratic Pathologies5. Conclusion Chapter 6 Institutional Pluralism 1. Institutions in International Criminal Law2. Fragmentation and Conflict 3. The Benefits of a Pluralist System 4. Complex Social Orders 5. A Hobbesian Challenge 6. ConclusionChapter 7 The Possibility of Rule-Governed Behavior in International Politics1. Cooperation under Anarchy 2. Assumptions and Implications of International Relations Theorizing 3. Self-Preservation as the Dominant State Preference 4. The Possibility of a Rule-Governed Order Conclusion

Divided Sovereignty is a lucid piece of work that makes a coherent argument in favor of a pluralist conception of multilateral institutions, which would serve as the agents of peoples and, as a last result, protect peoples against fundamental violations of human rights.