ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a few examples of governmental coordination in politics. Yet, the concept of sovereignty is a legal conception referring to the position of governments according to public international law, which regulates the interaction between states. Outside of state sovereignty one only finds the oceans and Antarctica. The chapter discusses some well-known issues involving state coordination, either through the UN framework with the General Secretary and the Security Council or the World Court, some of which constitute successes in international coordination. The states in coordination are: The Caspian Sea, Western Sahara, Namibia, East Timor, Kurdistan and Tibet. The US would be a Hobbesian state whereas the EU would incarnate a regional organization based upon the Grotius' framework of institutions for states in mutual reciprocities. In some of the rhetoric from the present US administration one finds in addition to the reasons of state doctrine the peculiar notion of hegemony.
