This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and
political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation
and conflict. By means of an innovating research strategy, it explains
state resilience within global governance while deepening the
obsolescence of the traditional sovereign state concepts, including by
emerging powers. Rather than considering the EU as an isolated case
study, the book considers the EU as both a reference and a proactive
player, which fosters a new research agenda both for comparative studies
and political theory. Lastly, in view of the currently emergent,
unprecedented and asymmetrical, 'multi-polar' world, it considers the
need for a new research agenda on multilateralism.