The State and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities

The State and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities

Author: Richard Beardsworth

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0198800614

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This book explores the role that states might play in promoting a cosmopolitan condition as an agent of cosmopolitanism rather than an obstacle to it. In doing so the book seeks to develop recent arguments in favour of locating cosmopolitan moral and political responsibility at the state level as either an alternative to, or a corollary of, cosmopolitanism as it is more commonly understood qua requiring transnational or global bearers of responsibility. As a result, the contributions in this volume see an on-going role for the state, but also its transformation, perhaps only partially, into a more cosmopolitan-minded institution -- instead of a purely 'national' or particularistic one. It therefore makes the case that the state as a form of political community can be reconciled with various form of cosmopolitan responsibility. In this way the book will address the question of how states, in the present, and in the future, can be better bearers of cosmopolitan responsibilities?


Cosmopolitan Regard

Cosmopolitan Regard

Author: Richard Vernon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0521761875

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Suggests that a cosmopolitan theory of political obligations involves extending these obligations beyond our own borders.


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Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190905654

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The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

Author: Gillian Brock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-21

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780521846608

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In a period of rapid internationalization of trade and increased labor mobility, is it relevant for nations to think about their moral obligations to others? Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political philosophers and theorists to explore cosmopolitanism: what it consists in, and the positive case which can be made for it. Their essays provide a comprehensive overview of both the current state of the debate and the alternative visions of cosmopolitanism with which we can move forward, and they will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, political theory, and law.


Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect

Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect

Author: Richard Illingworth

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1000968278

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This book provides a systematic analysis of reform measures aimed at strengthening the implementation of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) doctrine, utilising a cosmopolitan lens. In 2005, member states of the United Nations (UN) accepted a ‘Responsibility to Protect’ against four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Despite this commitment, mass atrocities remain a pervasive aspect of the international landscape. In addressing R2P reform, the book utilises a ‘transitional cosmopolitan’ lens. The aim of this transitional cosmopolitan approach is to promote incremental progress towards solving moral problems by operating within particular contexts and practical barriers to change. Three areas for reform are explored: the UN Security Council P5’s power of veto, to prevent the veto obstructing timely and decisive R2P response action; the powers of the UN General Assembly as an alternative means for responding to mass atrocity situations; and the establishment of an ‘R2P Commission’ to hold states accountable for their R2P commitments. These are not advocated as the definitive areas for R2P reform. However, each of the recommendations made can contribute at least some positive progress towards a more cosmopolitan application of the R2P that would help in curbing mass atrocity and improving the protection of fundamental human rights. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, genocide, humanitarian protection, and International Relations in general.


Cosmopolitanism Versus Non-Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism Versus Non-Cosmopolitanism

Author: Gillian Brock

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2013-07-11

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0199678421

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This volume demonstrates that the debate between cosmopolitans and non-cosmopolitans has become increasingly sophisticated. It advances the discussion on many of the questions over which cosmopolitans and non-cosmopolitans continue to disagree.


Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0393079716

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“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 history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.


Cosmopolitan Citizenship

Cosmopolitan Citizenship

Author: Roland Dannreuther

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1349146234

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An original discussion and analysis of the meaning and scope of citizenship. The book examines the concept of citizenship in the light of normative ethical and political arguments as to the possible costs and benefits to political order, community, rights and participation of opting either for a cosmopolitan or a bounded citizenship ideal. As well as putting the concept of cosmopolitan citizenship into question, this book raises fundamental issues as to the adequacy of the current conceptual resources of political and international theory.


The Cosmopolitan Military

The Cosmopolitan Military

Author: Jonathan Gilmore

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1137032278

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What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community.


The Struggle Over Borders

The Struggle Over Borders

Author: Pieter de Wilde

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 110865911X

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Citizens, parties, and movements are increasingly contesting issues connected to globalization, such as whether to welcome immigrants, promote free trade, and support international integration. The resulting political fault line, precipitated by a deepening rift between elites and mass publics, has created space for the rise of populism. Responding to these issues and debates, this book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of how economic, cultural and political globalization have transformed democratic politics. This study offers a fresh perspective on the rise of populism based on analyses of public and elite opinion and party politics, as well as mass media debates on climate change, human rights, migration, regional integration, and trade in the USA, Germany, Poland, Turkey, and Mexico. Furthermore, it considers similar conflicts taking place within the European Union and the United Nations. Appealing to political scientists, sociologists and international relations scholars, this book is also an accessible introduction to these debates for undergraduate and masters students.