It will be enough to focus on four or five of his main points in comparison with

It will be enough to focus on four or five of his main points in comparison with either Thomas Weiss on global governance or Hurst Hannum’s first two chapters on human rights
(a) does Held show that regarding each person as “an autonomous moral agent entitled to equal dignity” (p.15) provides a good ground for holding that the sovereign privileges of national governments should now be limited by human rights – as his conception of cosmopolitanism contends (e.g. see pp.40-58)? Hannum has some doubt about this, but Held links such rights-limited sovereignty to the idea that democratic discourses are needed to justify powerful institutions (p.64), and to liberal tolerance of diverse ethical worldviews or “thick” sets of values (p.82).