sovereignty, meaning that a deviating coalition of players does not have the power to arrange the matches of agents outside the … coalition. We study both the case of pairwise and coalitional deviations. We argue further that dominance has to be replaced by …

A set of coalition structures P is farsightedly stable (i) if all possible deviations from any coalition structure p … belonging to P to a coalition structure outside P are deterred by the threat of ending worse off or equally well off, (ii) if … there exists a farsighted improvingpath from any coalition structure outside the set leading to some coalition structure in …