In the Washington Post Hady Amr and Joel Samuels call for shared Israeli-Palestinian sovereignty over Jerusalem. The few examples of shared sovereignty’s success hardly serve as a paradigm for sharing the city. But that doesn’t dampen the ardor of the wonks:
And the most successful incarnations occurred in Europe during the 19th century when Germany and Belgium shared territory, and in an island chain in the South Pacific in the 20th (then the New Hebrides, a condominium between England and France; today, the independent nation of Vanuatu). What the success stories tell us is that, when properly conceived and thoughtfully implemented — with buy-in from the sovereigns — shared sovereignty can work.
