One might wonder, however, how far the politics of nationalism really is from the “politics of difference.” The Home and the World (better known, perhaps, in Satyajit Ray’s haunting film of the same title) is a tragic story of the defeat of a reasonable and principled cosmopolitanism by the forces of nationalism and ethnocentrism. 18. The various ways in which cosmopolitanism as a political and moral principle can be applied to politics and organizations have brought cosmopolitanism to the forefront of international and domestic debates in unprecedented ways. Footnote: Cosmopolitanism is a title in the “Issues of Our Time” series from W.W. Norton, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., in which big-name intellectuals tackle important contemporary themes. Political cosmopolitanism is an element implemented in political speech and action in order to standardize development -namely economic, environmental or social- by pushing less-developed nations into keeping up with these standards, and incentivize cooperation Young-Do Park, Sang-Jin Han. Cosmopolitanism—the aspiration to become a citizen of the world—has become a tainted luxury good. For Douzinas, see Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (London: Routledge, 2007). It might seem prudent, in this climate, to take distance from cosmopolitanism. This chapter proposes to distinguish between three levels of cosmopolitanism: moral, political, and institutional. M. Journal of International Political Theory, 9(2), 136-154. Although Held recognizes and responds to these problems through increasing universal hospitality in a context of global cosmopolitical governance, the state still remains at … Moral cosmopolitans believe that a distinctively rich package of our obligations of justice is global in scope due to basic moral reasons (such as our common humanity and the equal moral worth of all persons). Development and Society, 43 (2) 185-206. Cosmopolitanism and Liberalism in power and politics promote the human rights on two different scales but definitely share similar viewpoints on the topic. Another Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Reconstruction of the Neo-Confucian Conception of Tianxiaweigong (天下爲公) in the Age of Global Risks. A central pedagogical challenge in political science is how to train students in critical analysis while also preparing them for a life of intellectual growth and engaged US and global citizenship. Also see S. Newman, ‘Connolly's democratic pluralism and the question of state sovereignty’, British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 10(2) (2008), pp. (2014). 227–240. Liberalism has a definite foothold in the world as being viable whereas cosmopolitanism remains more of a concept than a true political platform. Cosmopolitanism actively produces the ethico-political problems it apparently seeks to resolve. Andrew Linklater's The Transformation of Political Community is an outstanding example of a defence of cosmopolitanism against both of these anti‐universalist currents (Linklater, 1998); characteristically generous to the opposition, Linklater nevertheless makes the universalist point stick – at the level of principle, at any rate.