Hierarchy in international relations has often been understood as an arrangement with a single dominant state controlling aspects of the subordinate actor's sovereignty. While such arrangements play an important role in structuring international politics, it does not exhaust the forms that hierarchy can take. Very often hierarchies have developed where multiple states jointly claim control of the same sovereign rights of the subordinate state. This paper introduces a new conceptualization of hierarchy where the sovereign rights of the subordinate state are understood as a resource that can be controlled by multiple dominant states. As with other resources, different types of property regimes can be developed to organize access and extraction of sovereignty, such as common property resources regimes. Finally, an explanation of common-pool hierarchy regimes is developed and explored using two case studies: European imperialism in the nineteenth-century China and the scramble for Africa.

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共同池层次结构：解释合作层次结构的出现

国际关系中的等级制度通常被理解为由一个单一的主导国家控制从属行为者主权的各个方面的安排。虽然这种安排在构建国际政治中发挥着重要作用，但它并没有穷尽等级制度可以采取的形式。很多时候，等级制度已经形成，多个国家联合声称控制从属国家的相同主权权利。本文介绍了一种新的等级制度概念，其中从属国家的主权被理解为可以由多个主导国家控制的资源。与其他资源一样，可以开发不同类型的财产制度来组织主权的获取和提取，例如共同财产资源制度。最后，