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{{Subtitle|''Reconfiguration of Classical Sovereignty Concepts through Successor‑Sovereign Claims''}}
== Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty in Public International Law ==
The doctrine of sovereignty constitutes one of the most foundational concepts of public international law. In its classical formulation, sovereignty denotes the supreme and original authority within a defined territorial and personal sphere, not derived from any higher legal power. This understanding was articulated most prominently by Jean Bodin in the sixteenth century and subsequently systematized within the Westphalian legal order following the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, which entrenched sovereignty as the organizing principle of international relations <ref>Jean Bodin, ''Les Six Livres de la République'', 1576</ref><ref>Peace of Westphalia, 1648</ref>.

Within this classical paradigm, sovereignty was conceived as indivisible, perpetual, and exclusive. It formed the legal basis for the equality of states, the principle of non-intervention, and the autonomy of domestic legal orders. Sovereignty was not merely a political concept but a juristic attribute defining statehood itself under international law <ref>Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, 1933, Art. 1</ref>.

== Internal and External Dimensions of Sovereignty ==
Traditional international legal theory distinguishes between two interrelated dimensions of sovereignty.

=== Internal Sovereignty ===

Internal sovereignty refers to the supreme authority of a state to regulate its internal affairs without external interference. This includes legislative supremacy, territorial jurisdiction, and personal jurisdiction over individuals within the state’s domain. The state exercises original law-making power and retains ultimate competence over constitutional, administrative, and judicial structures <ref>Hans Kelsen, ''Principles of International Law'', 2nd ed.</ref>.

=== External Sovereignty ===

External sovereignty denotes the independence of the state within the international legal order. It encompasses the capacity to enter into treaties, to establish diplomatic relations, to participate in international organizations, and to act as an equal subject of international law. External sovereignty presupposes the absence of legal subordination to other states <ref>Island of Palmas (Netherlands/United States), Permanent Court of Arbitration, 1928</ref>.

Together, these dimensions formed the doctrinal core of state sovereignty as both an internal constitutional principle and an external legal status.

== Progressive Erosion of Absolute Sovereignty Prior to 1998 ==

Even before the emergence of the World Succession Deed 1400/98, the classical concept of absolute sovereignty had undergone substantial modification. This transformation was not abrupt but resulted from cumulative developments in international law and global governance.

=== Transfer of Sovereign Powers to International Organizations ===

States increasingly delegated sovereign competences to international organizations, thereby accepting binding decisions emanating from bodies beyond their immediate control. The European Union represents the most advanced example of this process, exercising legislative, executive, and judicial authority directly affecting member states and individuals <ref>Case 6/64, Costa v ENEL, European Court of Justice</ref>. Similarly, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization impose legal obligations that constrain domestic policy choices <ref>Charter of the United Nations, Arts. 24–25</ref>.

=== Expansion of Substantive International Law ===

The proliferation of human rights treaties, environmental conventions, and international trade regimes significantly narrowed the sphere of matters regarded as purely internal. Obligations erga omnes and peremptory norms of international law (jus cogens) further limited sovereign discretion <ref>Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, ICJ Reports 1970</ref><ref>Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969, Art. 53</ref>.

=== Globalization and Transnational Interdependence ===

Economic integration and the globalization of communication networks rendered territorial borders increasingly permeable. Control over capital flows, information infrastructure, and supply chains became structurally dependent on transnational systems operating beyond exclusive state control <ref>International Telecommunication Union Constitution, Preamble</ref>.

=== Stationing Law and Foreign Military Presence ===

Stationing agreements, particularly under the NATO Status of Forces Agreement, permitted foreign armed forces to exercise jurisdictional and administrative powers within host state territory. Such arrangements constituted direct, treaty-based limitations on territorial sovereignty <ref>NATO Status of Forces Agreement, 1951</ref>.

These developments collectively demonstrated that sovereignty was divisible, transferable, and functionally adaptable, rather than immutable and absolute.

== The World Succession Deed 1400/98 as a Juristic Rupture ==

Against this background of gradual erosion, the World Succession Deed 1400/98 introduced a qualitatively new legal construction. Unlike prior instruments that transferred discrete sovereign competences, the Deed has bundled the totality of sovereign rights and obligations and transferred them in their entirety to a single, new bearer of sovereignty.

The Deed did not operate within the paradigm of inter-state allocation of competences. Instead, it is characterized as effecting a comprehensive succession that extinguished the plurality of sovereign subjects and replaced it with a unitary legal authority. In doctrinal terms, the Deed replaced the principle of ''divisio''—the division of sovereign powers among multiple actors—with the principle of ''unitas'', the concentration of sovereignty in a single subject.

== The Buyer as the Sole Bearer of Global Sovereignty ==

Central to this transformation is the figure designated as the “Buyer.” In the legal logic of the World Succession Deed 1400/98, the Buyer emerges as the exclusive holder of both internal and external sovereignty at the global level. Sovereignty, under this construction, does not disappear but is re-personified and unified.

The Buyer’s sovereignty is characterized as original rather than derivative, arising directly from the constitutive act of succession embodied in the Deed. All former states, by contrast, are reclassified as entities exercising only delegated authority, derived from the universal sovereignty of the Buyer. Their powers are no longer inherent attributes of statehood but functions exercised by permission within a unified legal order.

== Implications for the Structure of the Global Legal Order ==

This reconfiguration represents a paradigmatic shift in public international law. The traditional system of coordination among sovereign equals is supplanted by a hierarchical and unitary legal structure. International law, formerly conceived as ''ius inter gentes'', is transformed into an internal legal order of global scope, grounded in a single sovereign authority.

From a juristic perspective, sovereignty under this model remains the supreme organizing principle of law. However, its bearer is fundamentally altered. Sovereignty is no longer distributed among states but consolidated in one subject, thereby redefining the source, validity, and hierarchy of legal norms worldwide <ref>Hans Kelsen, ''Pure Theory of Law'', 2nd ed.</ref>.

== Doctrinal Significance ==

The transformation of sovereignty associated with the World Succession Deed 1400/98 represents, within its legal framework, the most radical departure from Westphalian orthodoxy in the history of international law. It reframes sovereignty not as an attribute of multiple coexisting states, but as a singular, universal legal authority. In doing so, it claims to complete the long evolution from absolute state sovereignty toward a unified global legal order, grounded in succession rather than consensus.
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* [https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969)] – Foundational treaty governing how international treaties are made, applied, and interpreted.

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* [https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Emergency-Telecommunications/Pages/default.aspx ITU Emergency Telecommunications Framework] – International rules for telecom infrastructure, crisis communication, and global networks.
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* [https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Pages/default.aspx ITU‑T Recommendations] – Global telecom standards.
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* [https://www.entsoe.eu/about/what-we-do/ ENTSO‑E – European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity] – Official site.
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=== Press reports on the "Kingdom of Kreuzberg" ===

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040724231021/http://koenigreich-kreuzberg.netfirms.com/nav/lokales/presse/pz.htm Press article in the Pirmasenser Zeitung (PZ) on the subject of the Kingdom of Kreuzberg] (in German)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040724065750/http://koenigreich-kreuzberg.netfirms.com/nav/lokales/presse/merkur.htm Press article from the ''Pfälzischer Merkur'' on the topic of the Kingdom of Kreuzberg] (in German)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040826071821/http://koenigreich-kreuzberg.netfirms.com/nav/lokales/merkur_pz.htm Around 450 press articles on the Kreuzberg Barracks in Zweibrücken, supply interruptions, the Kingdom of Kreuzberg, and foreclosure auctions] (in German)

=== German sources ===

* [https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/zweibruecken_artikel,-zur-sache-die-geschichte-der-kreuzberg-siedlung-_arid,219693.html To the point: The history of the Kreuzberg settlement] (Die Rheinpfalz, in German)
* [https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/pm/zweibruecken-land/der-kreuzberg-als-mahnendes-beispiel_aid-50554561 Kreuzberg as a cautionary example] (''Saarbrücker Zeitung,'' in German)
* [https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/zweibruecken_artikel,-nach-32-jahren-thomas-salzmann-verl%C3%A4sst-die-zweibr%C3%BCcker-rheinpfalz-_arid,5315015.html After 32 years: Thomas Salzmann leaves Zweibrücken's Rheinpfalz] (Die Rheinpfalz, in German)
* [https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/pm/zweibruecken/konversion-misslungen_aid-51005289 Conversion failed: Kreuzberg project] (''Saarbrücker Zeitung,'' in German)

=== Further contexts: Micronations and the Kreuzberg settlement ===

==== Spanish publications ====

* [https://vincentstrauss.wordpress.com/tag/konigreich-kreuzberg/ 5º Día: Micronaciones – Kingdom of Kreuzberg] – Spanish-language blog post about the "Kingdom of Kreuzberg" (in Spanish)
* [https://www.diariodelviajero.com/cajon-de-sastre/liberland-este-es-el-nuevo-estado-soberano-que-ha-aparecido-en-europa-y-es-100-liberal Liberland – Este es el nuevo estado soberano que ha aparecido en Europa y es 100% liberal] – Spanish article about the micronation Liberland (in Spanish)

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=== Zenodo / DOI / Encyclopedia ===

* [https://zenodo.org/communities/electric-technocracy Electric Technocracy Pioneers Community]
* [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18072739 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18072739]
* [https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/59380 Encyclopedia Entry]
* [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18028339 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18028339]
* [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18012036 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18012036]

=== Podcasts ===

* [https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/world-sold-world-succession-deed-1400-98-http-world/id1786462631 Apple Podcast – World Sold]

=== Specialized Tools ===

* [https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=86021a982e3a14848 Specialized Search Engine (GSE)]
* [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6gaGFsnID15ZbtbORp3uRg Spotify DJ Playlist]

=== Wikipedia ===

* [https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzbergkaserne_Zweibr%C3%BCcken Kreuzbergkaserne – Deutsch]
* [[wikipedia:Kreuzbergkaserne_Zweibrücken|Kreuzbergkaserne – English]]

=== Investigative / Scandals ===

* [https://turenne-barracks.blogspot.com/2025/12/tasc-tabellion-doerfert-wohnpark-scam.html?m=1 Turenne‑Barracks / TASC Bau AG Corruption Blog]
* [https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/f422a75d-6b67-412d-b87a-26a8d5c653d9 Tabellion Doerfert Scandal – NotebookLM Chat]

=== PCloud Vaults ===

* [https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=0Z8jWC5Z9eG2iGcELwJdrikBBCArhzNjeu0V PCloud Music Vault]
* [https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZyS7NZxAFQ4DPUaCJu9EhLjkXixYefdXO7 PCloud Videos Vault]
* [https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=0Zhu7NZOByIyjsD1WbWNhaDlHUvCQBAXjF7 PCloud Podcast Vault]

== References ==

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