The philosopher Jacques Derrida identifies two essential problems facing Europe today: first, narrow sovereignty based on traditional national foundations; and second, US hegemony over the global system and ongoing violation of international law. Derrida thus sets out to deconstruct the concept of sovereignty and critique the theses of the early theorists of indivisible sovereignty, such as Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and later Carl Schmitt. The goal of this undertaking is to entrench the values of democracy that we are unable to experience in reality. It is a democracy that constantly renews itself and is based on the deconstruction of indivisible sovereignty; thus, it is the antithesis of populism.