State and cosmopolitan responsibilities / edited by Richard Beardsworth, Garrett Wallace Brown and Richard Shapcott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book explores the role that states can play as agents of cosmopolitanism rather tharm as obstacles to it. Stepping aside of recent cosmopolitan argument that underplays the role of the state as an agent of cosmopolitan change, and in the contemporary context of the so-called 'nationalist' turn, The State and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities seeks to develop recent arguments in favour of locating cosmopolitan moral and political responsibility at the state level. Contributions in this volume see, accordingly, a critical role for the state in promoting a more cosmopolitan condition, but also the state's partial transformation into a more cosmopolitan-minded institution as opposed to a more national or particularistic one. In sum, it makes a new case that the state as a form of political community can be reconciled with various forms of cosmopolitan responsibility. In this way the book addresses the question of how states, in the present, and in the future, can be better bearers of cosmopolitan responsibilities on increasingly vital transborder issues.