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Cosmopolitanism
Paperback Edition: 1/2007
What is cosmopolitanism, and how does it relate to the times in which we live? The ancient notion was that all people should be treated as citizens of the world, whatever differences distinguish them. Today a resurgent cosmopolitanism challenges the primacy of nationalism in the
modern political imagination and looks forward to the reformation of political community in a globalizing age. Robert Fine explores the concept of cosmopolitanism and its application to contemporary issues: the cycles of violence associated with national conflicts; the creation of new laws to guarantee the rights of every human being; the punishment of rulers who commit crimes against humanity; the justification of humanitarian military interventions; resistance to the poverty-making tendencies of globalization; and the extension of democracy beyond national limits. Fine presents cosmopolitanism as an ambitious, if radically incomplete, research project, and his work will be of great interest to students in the fields of international political theory, social theory and cultural studies.
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Pages : 176
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Politics, Sociology, International Relations, Social Theory