This volume makes a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis
– that is, the idea of world or ‘global’ government. In recent
years this idea has been put forward as a way of averting the
threat of war and international disorder, and as a way of avoiding
the destruction of the planet. Proponents of this idea call for a
radical reform of the United Nations which aims to legitimize this
institution as an international police force and as a provider of
global justice.
Zolo criticizes this new cosmopolitan philosophy and rejects the
idea of trying to eliminate international conflict through the use
of centralized and superior military force. He seeks instead to
develop a conception of international relations which takes account
of their pluralistic, dynamic and conflictual nature. This
conception moves away from the logic of hierarchical
centralization, which so dominates the UN Charter, and towards the
logic of ‘weak interventionism’ and ‘weak pacifism’ which relies on
self-organization, co-ordination and negotiation.
Timely, provocative and iconoclastic, Cosmopolis is an
important contribution to current debates in politics,
international relations and social and political theory.
İçerik tablosu
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. The Cosmopolitan Model of the Holy Alliance.
2. The Gulf War: The First Cosmopolitan War.
3. The Blind Alleys of International Ethics.
4. Civitas Maxima and Cosmopolitan Law.
5. Towards a ‘Weak Pacifism’.
Conclusion.
Postscript to the English Edition.
Select Bibliography.
Index.
Yazar hakkında
Danilo Zolo (Rijeka, 1936) studied jurisprudence at the University of Florence and in 1966 he obtained the Teacher’s Diploma in History and Philosophy. He has been Associate Researcher at Boston University, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University and the University of Princeton. He is author of many essays concerning political philosophy, epistemology of the social sciences, General system theory, theory of social complexity, and philosophy of international law and international relations.
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