We argue that the food sovereignty framework offers a novel methodological opportunity to align the issues of poverty and conservation within a general socio-ecological model.
Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli Knesset, posed the European post-second world war dream and reality of cooperation and reduced sovereignty as a model that should eventually be emulated by all of the Middle Eastern countries.
Defensive no more about its censorship record, China is trumpeting its vision of "Internet sovereignty" as a model for the world and is moving to make it a legal reality at home.
Nādir Shah's success in welding together a disparate set of territories while operating outside the system of Mughal sovereignty provided a model for the Pashtuns after his assassination in 1747.
The sovereignty-sharing, legalistic model of integration embodied by the EU only succeeds because member states see the bigger, sometimes almost incalculable, benefits of membership.
I contend that we need to examine non-sovereignty as a model, not just for non-independent territories, but also for the nominally sovereign territories within and beyond the Caribbean that are mired in postcolonial crises of structural adjustment, international trade regulations, NGO shadow states, post disaster recovery, and the (often inadvertent) effects of international aid.
"There are profound differences between the governments of the US and Cuba that include differing concepts about national sovereignty, democracy, political models and international relations," he said as he closed parliament for the year.
"We can't escape this dilemma: how do you get a new model of sovereignty so that limited national sovereignty in the EU is not dominated by the biggest countries like Germany, for example," he said pointedly.
Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer hailed the law as a model of sovereignty for the future of Europeans.
