Review article

Sovereignty On Concession: Case Of Maldives

Vedran Obućina orcid.org/0000-0002-4418-8063 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Karlo Paljug ; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Borna Zgurić orcid.org/0000-0002-6388-0098 ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Climate change is the big threat to many island countries, primarily to the Maldives which will fully sink in the case of sea level rise. Then the question is whether the loss of territory is also loss of sovereignity of Maldives people. The authors argue it is not, and consider besides rigid legal and partly political science definition of sovereignty many other theories of sovereignty. Maldives could lease land in India, and there, in agreement with the Indian government, get a concession of sovereignty in which political sovereignty is gradually transferred to anthropological sovereignty.

Keywords

sovereignty; state; political theory; theories of international relations; Maldives

Hrčak ID:

146577

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/146577

Publication date:

5.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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