Polycentric Sovereignty
Context
Ramona Tudorancea:
"Connecting Castells to Srinivasan exposes the full trajectory of modern institutional evolution. Castells correctly foresaw that digital networks would dismantle the monolithic Westphalian monopoly. Srinivasan provided the strategic roadmap showing how digital communities can materialize back into physical territory. The Ixian thesis is that the bridge between these two insights is Legal Engineering. Power in the 21st century does not belong solely to those who hold physical land, nor to those who write pure software code. We need the self-enforcing institutional infrastructure, the legal topographies, risk envelopes, and governance protocols that seamlessly translate digital coordination into recognized, durable physical reality."