Author(s): Okubor Cecil Nwachukwu, Omonemu Edewor Tony
The article aims to examine whether the concept of positive sovereignty can be useful in understanding which global political justice issues the current international setting raises, and which new institutional solution if any could successfully tackle them. The article adopts a doctrinal approach based on tracing: the problems of sovereignty inherent in the fundamental assumption and ideas of Plato's political epistemology; negative and positive sovereignty in addressing the idea that the problem solves The article finds out that a global systemic factor can hinder positive sovereignty, and global order could be politically unjust in that it creates unjustifiable systemic obstacles to positive sovereignty. Therefore, the article concludes that what we need is global (political) solutions to global (political) problems by setting up more powerful and independent regulatory institutions to address some of the global systemic barriers to positive state sovereignty.