Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-313) and index.
Introduction: sovereignty and fire -- The problem: deconstructing sovereignty -- Beyond subject and structure: towards a genealogy of sovereignty -- Inventing outsides: proto-sovereignty, exempla and the general theory of the state in the Renaissance -- How policy became foreign: sovereignty, mathesis and interest in the Classical Age -- Reorganizing reality: sovereignty, modernity and the international -- Conclusion: the end of sovereignty?