Is there a need for global consitutionalism?

The review article is a polemic against the book by Christine Schwöbel Global Consitutionalism in International Legal Perspective (2011). Schwöbel argues in favour of global constitutionalism. She recognizes it as desirable perspective for solving world problems, although she emphasizes the importance of so-called 'negative universalism' because of difficulties in formulating positive normative principles of global constitutionalism. Contrary to Schwöbel the author maintains that there is no need for global constitutionalism in international legal perspective because it denies the autonomous character of international law and its normative independence from national law. An independent approach to international law allows for seeing it as a legal order that is not so much primitive, as simply different from national constitutional patterns. Perhaps this autonomy of international law is a greater value than striving for its constitutional interpretation that makes this law rather artificially similar to the national constitutional ideal.