The further and final question that needs to be addressed is this: what light might re-strained collective self-assertion cast on the global context of an authoritative politics of boundaries? How, concretely, might restrained collective self-assertion offer conceptual and normative orientation regarding the irreducible tension between political plurality and legal unity in a global context? No answer that might be given to this question would be plausible unless it accounts for the institutional dimension of an authoritative politics of boundaries in a global context. I propose, therefore, to approach the possibilities and limitations of this institutional dimension of authority in a global context in three steps. The first examines a range of specific legal techniques and practices through which legal orders negotiate and seek to settle their differences, such as the doctrine of the national margin of appreciation. The remaining sec-tions of the chapter explore more comprehensive initiatives to institutionalise struggles for recognition, namely, what goes by the name of global administrative law (GAL) on the one hand, and transnational or even global constitutionalism on the other.