Interestingly, Miller
(1999: 74) argues that the idea that ‘individual
people can invoke international law
against their own state does bring us closer
to a recognisable ideal of citizenship’. He
adds that this ‘is at most a thin version of
liberal citizenship’ since the ‘citizen is not a
lawmaker’ in any real sense. Moreover, in
the absence of common national sentiments
in world politics, it is better to modify
national law so that it does justice to cosmopolitan
obligations than to create international
law which can override the law of
the state (Miller, 1999: 74–6).