Agreed sovereignty is a massive barrier to most helpful initiatives; but it feels pretty intractable and I worry your objections to this concern are sort of hand-wavy—but constructive ideas here may be very valuable. I myself have argued that space governance needs to evolve to include “interplanetary” law and institutions which would not be mired in Westphalian sovereignty, and I’m interested in fleshing this out with positive visions of alternatives to a sovereignty system.
Agreed sovereignty is a massive barrier to most helpful initiatives; but it feels pretty intractable and I worry your objections to this concern are sort of hand-wavy—but constructive ideas here may be very valuable. I myself have argued that space governance needs to evolve to include “interplanetary” law and institutions which would not be mired in Westphalian sovereignty, and I’m interested in fleshing this out with positive visions of alternatives to a sovereignty system.