Islands for Rent: When a Country Begins Selling Pieces of Sovereignty

Podcast: The Sovereignty Files · Circle Of Insight Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

What happens when a country discovers that sovereignty itself may be one of its most valuable exports? Tuvalu offered an early glimpse when its accidental possession of the internet suffix .tv became a source of national revenue, helping the tiny Pacific state finance development and its place on the international stage. (Readkong⁠) Today, climate change, carbon markets, digital infrastructure, and private investment are creating far more complicated ways for small states to monetize rights associated with territory and jurisdiction. At the same time, low-lying island nations are confronting a legal question international law was never really designed to answer: can a...