Did you know that the sovereign political theory started with Thomas Hobbes who developed the idea that the government ruled effectively by law is the only bulwark against anarchy? He argued that sovereign and absolutist national states compete against each other for power and influence. In opposition to Hobbes, Immanuel Kant develops a theory of cosmopolitan right in which state sovereignty is matched with a gradually developing world federation of peaceful states. Similarly, Kant opposes Hobbes’s self-centred moral theory with a moral theory which is based on the individual self and the world community.

What do you think is the future: individual sovereign nations or individuals like you with a world-citizenship? Share your best arguments.