 Given the neo-republican focus on the moral necessity of citizenship in a constitutional order, it is unsurprising that most neo-republicans have adopted a view that is functionally similar to the right institutionalists (Pettit 2010; Laborde &amp; Ronzoni  2015; Smith forthcoming). The state is the primary site of distributive justice and the purpose of international institutions is to ensure that each state has the ability to ensure non-domination within its borders and to prevent states from dominating other states. This commitment is driven by considerations that are primarily non-ideal. Many statist neo-republicans have no principled objection to a world republic and may even find that institutional structure preferable under ideal conditions. Yet, they view a more robustly republican global order as simply too far away and difficult to achieve for the ideal case to be action-guiding.