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This chapter completes this genealogy by ‘returning to the present’, namely interrogating IR theory in the post–Cold War era. This chapter argues that the presupposition of the unitary ‘nation-state’ no longer holds: mainstream post–Cold War IR theory no longer takes its main unit of analysis as congruent. Instead, what is produced in our contemporaneous times is a growing body of knowledge and technologies of intervention at a global level that aim to re-build the ‘international’ as a system composed of congruent societies that either follow the traditional model of the ‘nation-state’ or other forms of societal congruency. The chapter traces these changes and interrogates five discursive practices by which the fantasy of congruency is rendered possible.