This paper offers an analysis of sovereignty that focuses particularly on domain or subject-matter as a component of sovereignty. While traditional analyses of sovereignty typically focus on supremacy, authority, and territoriality, subject-matter is also part and parcel of the concept of sovereignty and provides the key to understanding its role in a global age. Despite important human rights, environmental, and security concerns, state sovereignty remains a desirable political convention when supplemented by narrowly circumscribed global sovereignties.
Key words: sovereignty, global justice, cosmopolitanism, human rights.
