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A fresh assessment of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory.

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including

Globalization has been contested in recent times. Among the critical perspectives is cosmopolitanism. Yet, with the exception of normative theory, international

This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integrati