http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/a77ab814dee566a4 https://verfassungsblog.de/good-bye-hobbes/ Good-bye, Hobbes? Erhan, Doruk ger 2026-08-31 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 A specter is haunting international legal theory, and according to Monica Hakimi, it is the specter of Thomas Hobbes. It is not that there is widespread demand for a global leviathan to replace the many domestic ones. The Hobbesian specter, Hakimi argues, resides in the background, in the collective assumptions through which international lawyers see their own field, its successes and limits.