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Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests.   This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be  democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. 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