In this response to Neil Walker’s rich and insightful Foreword essay “The Sovereignty Surplus,” I examine some of the motivational and practical reasons which explain the persistence of the sovereign state form. An insufficient attentiveness to these reasons, I argue, leads Walker to attribute an exaggerated causal significance to his “five Rs” or phenomena of surplus and accrual.

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主权的理由：尼尔·沃克前言的后记

在这篇对尼尔沃克富有洞察力的前言文章“主权盈余”的回应中，我考察了解释主权国家形式持续存在的一些动机和实际原因。我认为，对这些原因的关注不足导致沃克将夸大的因果意义归因于他的“五个R”或盈余和应计现象。