Taking insights and controversies from feminist political theory, Lu looks to illuminate alternative images of 'sovereignty as privacy' and 'sovereignty as responsibility', and to identify new challenges arising from the increased agency of private global civil society, and their relationship with the world of states.

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CATHERINE LU is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Public and Private: Towards Conceptual Clarification Realism and the Tyranny of the Private Sovereignty as Privacy The One and Many Faces of Cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism, Liberalism and Intervention Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism and the Use of Force Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index