Cosmopolitanism:IdealsandRealities

Thisbooksetsoutthecaseforacosmopolitanapproachtocontemporaryglobalpolitics.Itpresentsasystematictheoryofcosmopolitanism,explicatingitscoreprinciplesandjustifications,andexaminestherolemanyoftheseprincipleshaveplayedinthedevelopmentofglobalpolitics,suchasframingthehumanrightsregime.Theframeworkisthenusedtoaddresssomeofthemostpressingissuesofourtime:thecrisisoffinancialmarkets,climatechangeandthefalloutfromthewarsinAfghanistanandIraq.Ineachcase,Heldarguesthatrealisticpoliticsisexhausted,andthatcosmopolitanismisthenewrealism.SeealsoGarrettWallaceBrownandDavidHeld′sTheCosmopolitanismReader.