This is the first work in political theory to bring together IR, comparative politics and political theory approaches to analyze the post-sovereign state and develop a new interpretative scheme for social and political scientists

1. Introduction 2. Political Pluralization 3. The Need to Interfere 4. Principles, Discord and Concord 5. Sustainability as a Policy Telos 6. Beyond Political Principles 7. Alexandrism 8. The New Polis 9. Citizenship in the Metropolis 10. The Princes of Industry 11. Harmony and Political Pluralization

Marcel Wissenburg is Professor of Political Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen and Socrates Professor of Humanist Philosophy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.