After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence of international capital exceeding the borders of nation states, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'war on terror', the often predicted, but still uncertain establishment, of a new international American Empire, the proliferation of social and political struggles among stateless refugees, migrant workers, and partial citizens, the resurgence of religion as a dominant source of political identification among people all over the globe - these developments and others have thrown into crisis the modern concept of sovereignty, and the notions of statehood and citizenship that rest upon it. Drawing on classical sources and more avant garde speculations, the papers collected in After Sovereignty , and organised according to the three dominant contemporary attitudes towards sovereignty - Sovereignty Renewed; Sovereignty Rethought; Sovereignty Rejected - contribute to a resurgent interest in the problem of sovereignty in theoretical debates. They also provide a multitude of resources for the urgent, if necessarily fractured and diffuse, effort to reconfigure sovereignty today.