Cosmopolitanism Ideals and Realities [Hardcover]

This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicating its core principles and justifications, and examines the role many of these principles have played in the development of global politics, such as framing the human rights regime. The framework is then used to address some of the most pressing issues of our time: the crisis of financial markets, climate change and the fallout from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In each case, Held argues that realistic politics is exhausted, and that cosmopolitanism is the new realism.

See also Garrett Wallace Brown and David Held's The Cosmopolitanism Reader.

Preface.

Introduction: Changing Forms of Global Order.

Towards a Multipolar World.

The Paradox of Our Times.

Economic Liberalism and International Market Integration.

Security.

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis.

Shared Problems and Collective Threats.

A Cosmopolitan Approach.

Democratic Public Law and Sovereignty.

Summary of the Book Ahead.

1 Cosmopolitanism: Ideas, Realities and Deficits.

Globalization.

The Global Governance Complex.

Globalization and Democracy: Five Disjunctures.

Cosmopolitanism: Ideas and Trajectories.

Cosmopolitan Realities.

Addressing the Institutional Deficit: Reframing the Market.

2 Principles of Cosmopolitan Order.

Cosmopolitan Principles.

Thick or Thin Cosmopolitanism?

Cosmopolitan Justifications.