Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
1 The Spectrum of Cosmopolitanism 16
1 The Historical Background to the Cosmopolitan Disposition 17
2 The Cosmopolitan Spectrum 21
2.1 Cultural cosmopolitanism 21
2.2 Moral cosmopolitanism 23
2.3 Normative cosmopolitanism 29
2.4 Institutional cosmopolitanism 34
2.5 Legal cosmopolitanism 36
2.6 Political cosmopolitanism 40
3 Conclusion 46
2 The Realist Critique of Cosmopolitanism 48
1 The Major Tenets of Realism 49
2 Critique of Cosmopolitanism 56
2.1 The Realist approach to international law 56
2.2 Cosmopolitan 'domination' 63
2.3 Humanitarian intervention and political moralism 66
2.4 Towards a prudent politics of limits 70
3 Conclusion 73
3 A Cosmopolitan Response to Realism 75
1 The Status of the Normative in Conditions of Interdependence 76
2 Power, Interest and Legitimacy: A Cosmopolitan Perspective 81
3 Category Errors: Domestic Analogy, 'Legalistic-Moralistic' Fallacy and Anarchy 90
4 Humanitarian Intervention: Towards a Cosmopolitan Realism 97
5 From the Principle of Sovereignty to the Principle of Subsidiarity 104
6 Conclusion 108
4 The Marxist Critique of Cosmopolitanism 111
1 The Major Tenets of Marxism 114
2 From Embedded Liberalism to Neo-liberalism 122
3 The Marxist Critique of Cosmopolitanism 128
3.1 Cosmopolitan lack of economic analysis and complicity with global liberal governance 130
3.2 Deep reasons for global inequality: beyond cosmopolitan surface 134
3.3 The cosmopolitan substitution of ethics for politics 137
3.4 Nation-state particularity contra cosmopolitan universality: the Marxist response to globalization 138
4 Conclusion 139
5 A Cosmopolitan Response to Marxism 141
1 Cosmopolitan Reformism 144
1.1 Cosmopolitanism and the capitalist system 144
1.2 Cosmopolitan refl ection on the market and regulation 146
2 'Global Social Democracy': What Can This Concept Mean? Re-embedded Liberalism 153
3 The Cosmopolitan Logic of Re-embedded Liberalism 159
4 Global Energy Futures: Economic Dilemma and State Leadership 162
5 Conclusion 169
6 The Postmodern Critique of Cosmopolitanism 172
1 Postmodernism, Modernity and IR 173
2 Foucault and Agamben: The Biopolitical Fate of Liberal Governmentality 176
3 The Illiberal Practices of Global Liberal Governance 182
3.1 The politics of security 182
3.2 The liberal way of war 183
3.3 Depoliticization of the victim 187
4 Jacques Derrida: Law, Democracy-to-come and Ethico-political Responsibility 189
5 Conclusion 197
7 A Cosmopolitan Response to Postmodernism 199
1 The Logic of Liberal Law I: What Is Liberal Law? 200
2 The Logic of Liberal Law II: Cosmopolitan Response to Postmodern Refl ection on Law 204
3 A Politics of the Lesser Violence: Cosmopolitan Response to Illiberal Liberalism 210
4 Political Judgement and Risk: A Cosmopolitan Response to Derrida and his IR Legacy 218
5 Conclusion 224
Conclusion: Idealism and Realism Today 227
Notes 238
References 244
Index 264
