ABSTRACT
Global governance promotes common goods and puts national interest in a new and more modest perspective. It appears as something radically new in international relations. Global governance overshadows and even contradicts sovereignty which was, however, the cornerstone of the Westphalian order. Since the Vienna Congress to the current day, states and their rulers have come to imagine four ways to keep Hobbes and traditional sovereignty in play, even if it is obviously hard to combine a Hobbesian tradition with these new requisites of governance. The four ways includes a concert of powers, a condominium of superpowers, stakeholding and association or league. Four main contemporary trends are destabilizing stakeholding as a mean of governance such as: inclusion, interdependence, the pressure of common goods, and the role of new international actors. Sovereignty keeps its privileged status of being the cornerstone of the international order.
