Röpke wanted national sovereignty reduced but not transferred to global government.
Evidence
In a lecture he delivered at the Academy of International Law at The Hague in 1955, Röpke emphasized the importance of the division while also pointing to its paradox. “To diminish national sovereignty is most emphatically one of the urgent needs of our time,” he argued, but “the excess of sovereignty should be abolished instead of being transferred to a higher political and geo graphical unit.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 52
Categorization
- SEED: This paradox — defederalizing sovereignty without supranational government — is a rich angle for explaining what neoliberalism actually wanted (not deregulation but a specific constitutional architecture), against the popular image of pure anti-statism.
- XREF: connects to: Röpke advocated export agriculture over industrialization and mistrusted UN governance — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1288; States gain global influence only by surrendering some sovereignty — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 183
Broader Connections
- Röpke advocated export agriculture over industrialization and mistrusted UN governance
#corroborates(0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1288 - States gain global influence only by surrendering some sovereignty
#qualifies(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 183