Based on an analysis of the changing practice of sovereignty in Brazil, India and South Africa, this book argues that soft sovereignty provides an adequate, yet unrecognized, basis for a moderate, embedded and plural cosmopolitanism situated between globalism's demand for a world state and statism's defence of the status quo.

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Dr. Johannes Plagemann is research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, Germany. He was a post-doctoral member of the Sofja-Kovaleskaja research group on 'Background Justice between States: Global Institutional Design to Foster Sovereign Statehood' at the Technical University Darmstadt (2014) and research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs (2010-2014). He teaches at the University of Hamburg and publishes in scholarly journals such as Globalizations and Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric. Johannes Plagemann studied Philosophy and Economics in Bayreuth and Sao Paulo (BA) and Political Sciences in Hamburg and Bordeaux (MA). He did fieldwork in Mozambique, Brazil, South Africa, and India.

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Acknowledgements Glossary Of Acronyms Introduction PART I: COSMOPOLITANISM, SOVEREIGNTY AND MULTIPOLARITY 1.1 Regional and Rising Powers in International Political Theory 1.2 Cosmopolitanism 1.3 Cosmopolitan Sovereignty and Practice Dependency PART II: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY 2.1 Sovereignty on the Subnational Level 2.2 Sovereignty on the Transnational Level 2.3 Sovereignty on the Supranational Level PART III: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN BRAZIL 3.1 Subnational Level 3.2 Transnational Level 3.2.1 A New Institutional Layer? 3.2.2 Disillusionment and Consolidation 3.3 Supranational Level 3.3.1 Foreign Policy Thinking under Cardoso and Lula da Silva 3.3.2 Regional Integration 3.4 Brazil: Conclusion PART IV: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN INDIA 4.1 Subnational Level 4.2 Transnational Level 4.2.1 Participatory Experiments 4.2.2 Changing Forms of Protest 4.3 Supranational Level 4.3.1 India's Foreign Policy Thinking and National Sovereignty 4.3.2 Regional Integration 4.4 India: Conclusion PART V: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN SOUTH AFRICA 5.1 Subnational Level 5.2 Transnational Level 5.2.1 Forms of Engagement: Winners and Losers 5.2.2 Professionalism and Constituency Building in a Context of Fluidity 5.3 Supranational Level 5.3.1 South African Foreign Policy Thinking 5.3.2 Regional Integration 5.4 South Africa: Conclusion PART VI: SOFT SOVEREIGNTY AND FACT-SENSITIVE COSMOPOLITANISM 6.1 Soft Sovereignty And Complex Multipolarity 6.2 Complex Multipolarity and Cosmopolitanism 6.3 A Moderate, Plural, and Embedded Cosmopolitanism for a Complex and Multipolar World Conclusion Bibliography Appendix