It's kind of quaint that international relations and political science clowns are still so attached to ideas of Westphalian order and sovereignty. Almost like a whore maintaining she is still a maiden by virtue of only offering fellatio and sodomy. It's such a clown area of so

called knowledge where the foundational teaching is so absurdly wrong. The Westphalian order died nearly a century ago after the world wars. What exists now is an incomplete imperial world system where the hegemon tries to order relations between states. Most states are only part

sovereign and some not at all and understanding the reality of this is a lot more useful to understanding the way the world works instead of listening to some "expert" court eunuch prattle on about rules and rights and international law.