Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theory

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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