The Implications of Honorary Sovereignty

The Need for New International Institutions, The New Ledger, June 23, 2010. "A major challenge for conservatives, and indeed for everyone who believes in fundamental human rights, is to move away from de facto universal membership and towards a world with new international institutions. There is simply no way to derecognize abusive states – or to work effectively on a basis of genuine respect for sovereignty – unless we create new institutions to do it, ones that have standards for membership. That does not imply that all the existing institutions should disappear. But it does imply that, over time, they should lose their centrality."

Kick Them Out

Honorary Sovereignty and International De-Recognition, Contentions, June 14, 2010. "In his recent piece in the New York Times, “To Save Africa, Reject Its Nations,” Pierre Englebert, professor of African politics at Pomona College, advances an important — fundamental, even — idea: i.e., that sovereignty, understood as a privilege accorded to a state by virtue of international recognition, is based on the satisfactory performance by that state of certain basic duties."