“…Hauke Brunkhorst's response article, War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism? (Brunkhorst, 2023) is framed around the evolution of ‘world society’ as an outcome of historically contingent but path‐defining combinations of republican revolutions, experiments with constitutionalism and continuing projects of democracy building. A globalised society – connected through ideas, institutions, legal orders and markets – does not have many desirable alternatives in the absence of functional nation‐states that can fulfil popular demands for legitimacy and performance.…”