ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 distinguishes the contexts in which sovereignty and cosmopolitanism may operate and adds the realms where these contexts and, consequently, agents and players and their interrelations may appear as well as their different modes of existence. Both sovereignty and cosmopolitanism play a respective role in the domestic, regional and international contexts. A subject or an object of study may be assessed in terms of how it ought to be, how it is and how it should or could be. Realms refer to the way in which a subject or an object of study may be perceived normatively, factually or axiologically. Additional angles of the pluralism of pluralisms discussion which require extensive exploration in terms of sovereignty and cosmopolitanism are the realms in which they are evaluated and, consequently, their intentional and non-intentional concealed assumptions and inherent conceptions. Finally, a subject or object of study may encompass distinctive modes of existence and therefore are ideal, natural, cultural or metaphysical.
