Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Addressing key issues including sovereignty, political community, democracy and international intervention, this book outlines a theory of cosmopolitan politics based on hospitality and makes an important contribution to the debates about cosmopolitanism and ethics in IR.

1. Introduction 2. Towards a Genealogy of Hospitality 3.Spectres of Hospitality 4. Hospitality in the Law of Nature and Nations 5. Kantian Hospitality 6. Hospitality in Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity 7. Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality 8. Conclusion: The Politics of Hospitality versus the Biopolitics of Security