Statelessness as a Product of Slippery Statecraft the human right to membership, 156 the right to political membership, 157 or the right to naturalise. 158 According to Belton’s formulation, each stateless person has the right to the good of citizenship in the state of his or her birth from the moment he or she is born or to the right of citizenship in the state where he or she has made a life via residence. 159 Bringing the politics of statelessness back in, belonging here is better understood as ‘a negotiated and dynamic institution’. 160 With whom will the stateless negotiate, if outside the Westphalian frame of justice? Since negotiation with a state that negates one’s existence may prove difficult, new cosmopolitan formulations of law and sovereignty 161 are needed to submit exclusionary national sovereignties to overarching principles of justice and novel interpretations of who belongs. Perhaps only then can brave new citizenries craft the states to which they have the political will to belong, and not the other way around. 156 Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens (Cambridge University Press 2004) 141. 157 William A Barbieri Jr, Ethics of Citizenship: Immigration and Group Rights in Germany (Duke University Press 1998) 115. 158 Benhabib (n 156). 159 Belton (n 13) 177. 160 Engin F Isin and Peter Nyers (eds), Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies (Routledge 2014) 2. 161 Held ‘Three Models of Sovereignty’ (n 20). 155