This book offers a unique reconceptualization of cosmopolitanism. It examines several themes that inform politics in a globalized era, including global governance, international law, citizenship, constitutionalism, community, domesticity, territory, sovereignty, and nationalism. The volume explores the specific philosophical and institutional challenges in constructing a cosmopolitan political community beyond the nation state. It reorients and decolonizes the boundaries of ‘cosmopolitanism’ and questions the contemporary discourse to posit inclusive alternatives. Presenting rich and diverse perspectives from across the world, the volume will interest scholars and students of politics and international relations, political theory, public policy, ethics and philosophy.

Contents: Introduction/Sonika Gupta and Sudarsan Padmanabhan. Part I: Normative cosmopolitanism: statements. 1. Cosmopolitan democracy: paths and agents/Daniele Archibugi and David Held. 2. The cosmopolitanization of international law: rethinking global constitutionalism/Garrett Wallace Brown. 3. Legitimacy in the global normative order: justificatory practices in the space of reasons/Eva Erman. Part II: Reconceptualizing cosmopolitanism. 4. Cosmopolitanism without foundations/Veronique Pin-Fat. 5. Who are the people of the world?/Sudhir Chella Rajan. 6. Cosmopolitanism, liberalism and citizenship/Arvind Sivaramakrishnan. 7. Diasporas, cosmopolitanism and post-territorial citizenship/Francesco Ragazzi. 8. The ‘Domestic Abroad’ and the limits of cosmopolitanism/Latha Varadarajan. Part III: Towards a postcolonial critique. 9. The elusiveness of ‘Non-Western Cosmopolitanism’/Rahul Rao. 10. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism: A re-examination/Sonika Gupta. Epilogue: Imagining India: The interplay of the cosmopolitan and the vernacular/ Sudarsan Padmanabhan. Index.