Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cosmopolitical Democracy / Daniele Archibugi -- Running the World through Windows / Geoffrey Hawthorn -- 'International Justice' / David Chandler -- Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism / Timothy Brennan -- The New Liberal Cosmopolitanism / Peter Gowan -- Can Cosmopolitical Democracy Be Democratic? / Nadia Urbinati -- The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travellers: Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism / Craig Calhoun -- The Influence of the Global Order on the Prospects for Genuine Democracy in Developing Countries / Thomas Pogge -- The Imperial Presidency and the Revolutions of Modernity / Robin Blackburn -- Violence, Law and Justice in a Global Age / David Held -- The Deeper Challenges of Global Terrorism: A Democratizing Response / Richard Falk, Andrew Strauss -- Democracy vs Globalization. The Growth of Parallel Summits and Global Movements / Mario Pianta -- Demos and Cosmopolis / Daniele Archibugi -- Globalization, Democracy and Cosmopolis: A Bibliographical Essay / Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist upon a mainenance of their privileges, an increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war