An entity forming a unit is sovereign if the determination of its operation is not dependent on the intent of external entities. Often comm...
An entity forming a unit is sovereign if the determination of its operation is not dependent on the intent of external entities.
Often communities are formed where the members of a community do not want to give up their sovereignty, but at the same time want to participate in the more effective, mutually beneficial form of unified collaboration. What are the operational rules for an alliance of several members who are sovereign entities and therefore don't want to give up independent determination of operation for the intent of collaboration?
The difficulty of the problem is that collaboration between sovereign entities can only extend to areas where the conditions of cooperation are independently accepted by all partners involved in the collaboration and are not changed during the cooperation, although any members of the collaboration could do so sovereignly.
This operational practice narrows the areas of cooperation because of the need for continuous consensus, makes collaboration fragile because of the breaking power of any sovereign member, and makes it impossible to adapt quickly to changing circumstances because of the need for the required consensus. It seems impossible to maintain effective cooperation in a community of sovereign members in a competitive environment.
In the evolutionary nature, where systems cooperate in the form without intention, communities of sovereign entities cannot create lasting collaboration and therefore cannot effectively use the benefits of acting as a common unit. The continued operation of these communities can quickly become detrimental to the existence of its individual members, and as the internal and external circumstances of the collaboration change, the cooperation erodes and the collaboration easily breaks down. In evolutionary nature, where collaboration is formed unintentionally, cooperation typically involves a lesser to greater surrender of independence of the collaborating partners.
However, cooperation between sovereign entities could be sustainable and effective in the long term in a competitive environment under the following operating rules:
- Cooperation does not require consensus on everything from all the sovereign entities that are forming the alliance.
- The sovereign entities forming the alliance may collaborate in any field independently from the not cooperating members of the alliance.
- Collaboration requires consensus on the conditions of cooperation between the collaborating entities.
- The conditions of cooperation in a new area must conform to the conditions of all existing areas of cooperation between the entities.
- Withdrawal of a sovereign entity from a condition of a cooperation means withdrawal from that collaboration, and also means automatic withdrawal from all other collaboration that does not conform with the abandoned condition.
Applying these rules to a collaborating alliance of sovereign entities results in a complex and dynamic form of cooperation that allows flexibility to adapt quickly to the changing circumstances.
Cooperation between sovereign entities cannot be a closed form of collaboration. Cooperation in the alliance based on these operating principles does not lead to or require a closed set of collaborating entities. Any sovereign entity may join the cooperation in any area of collaboration at any time by accepting the consensus on conditions, or any collaborating partner may automatically withdraw from the cooperation if it abandons the consensus on the agreed conditions.
Operational procedure of the federal system of alliance of sovereign entities:
- When one of the sovereign entities forming the alliance by accepting the operational rules described above seeks a cooperating partner in a particular collaboration, it shall announce the purpose of collaboration and the conditions of cooperation, to which other sovereign entities members of the alliance may join by accepting the purpose of the collaboration and the conditions of cooperation.
- If any of the conditions required for a new collaboration is incompatible with the actual conditions of any existing cooperation of the collaborating partners, when a sovereign entity participating in an existing collaboration enters into a new cooperation that is incompatible in terms of conditions, the collaborating partner shall automatically withdraw their participation from the existing but incompatible cooperation.
- If a sovereign entity wishes to cooperate on different conditions in an established area of collaboration, it must announce the terms of the new conditions and seek consensus. If there is no consensus for the change, the entity shall automatically withdraw from the collaboration.
An alliance of sovereign entities cooperating under the rules outlined above can collaborate effectively without having to surrender sovereignty.
It can be concluded that the potential capability of an alliance collaborating with giving up more or less sovereignty in areas of cooperation may be greater than a potential capability of collaboration between strictly sovereign entities. However, suboptimal decisions of centralized governance of alliance of non-sovereign entities in response to changing circumstances may jeopardize the sustainability of the collaboration and even the existence of the alliance.
It can also be concluded that a collaborating alliance of entities that do not give up their sovereignty even if not necessarily respond to changes in circumstances with the greatest possible potential of collaboration, it can respond to changes in a more flexible way, thus reducing the risk that the whole alliance will cease to exist due to suboptimal decisions by individual sovereign entities in response to changes.
Some collaborative systems are necessarily the cooperation of sovereign entities. These kind of systems could function effectively within the framework outlined.
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