The UN, created to uphold the sovereignty of states, has become a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to organise in favour of their rights.
To what extent can we maintain that the Westphalian ‘order’ is stable and lasting given the recurring evidence of the existence of ‘rogue,’ ‘weak,’ or ‘failed’ states?
International politics, for good and for bad, was shaped by Europeans and by non-Europeans copying European examples.
IR needs to pay attention to philosophical anarchism; IR has been paying attention to anarchy, but has failed to incorporate anarchism into its conceptual repertoire.
Any serious attempt to reclaim the practice of sovereignty from the state must pay attention to the transformative potential of constituent power.
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