2021 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 3(1) in ways that can prioritise the needs of human beings over states, none more so than for the Rohingya. 24 Ultimately, Siegelberg’s book reveals how the international order and the nation-state system first took shape in the imaginations of jurists and theorists — how the ideas of key personalities from the past have shaped our present. As such, Siegelberg challenges us to believe in the power of ideas and imagination to transform the structures that govern us. She leaves all of us with the challenge to re-imagine a new world order — an order in which, when the stateless and persecuted come knocking, they are not left on the doorstep, and their quest for restitution is no longer wilfully consigned to fiction as the stateless characters were at the beginning of Siegelberg’s book. 24 See, eg, Gert Rosenthal, A Brief and Independent Inquiry into the Involvement of the United Nations in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018 (Report, United Nations May 29 2019) <https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/atoms/files/Myanmar%20Report%20%20May%202019.pdf>. 168