Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 327 EAN: 9781859844373 ISBN: 1859844375 Label: Verso Manufacturer: Verso Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: July 17, 2003 Publisher: Verso Sales Rank: 444274 Studio: Verso
Product DescriptionCosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of their privileges -- freedom of speech, security, wealth -- an increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war. What is needed, the writers here suggest, is a deliberate decision to extend the principles and values of democracy to the sphere of international relations. Recent experience does not bode well, but their arguments, which range from reform of the United Nations, reduction of military weapons, additional power for international judiciary institutions and an increase in aid to developing countries, urge new and inspired action.
