Training for Cosmopolitan Citizenship in the 1930s

Generations of peace seekers have sought an alternative modeling of the world beyond the Westphalian system of separate sovereign states. Recent global trends have raised the possibility of new institutional frameworks and processes for promoting world peace, including that of “cosmopolitan democracy.” If the utopian vision of cosmopolitan democracy is to become real, then the development of new political structures must be accompanied by a growing consciousness of what it means to be a cosmopolitan citizen. This paper examines the methods developed by one “utopian” to prepare his coworkers and followers for cosmopolitan citizenship in London during the years prior to the Second World War

Citizenship · Consciousness · Cosmopolitanism · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Westphalian sovereignty · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Philosophy