ABSTRACT
Global egalitarianism is a commitment that goes beyond poverty mitigation. The literature on global egalitarianism has become rather crowded and can appear rather chaotic to someone who is coming to it anew. Cosmopolitan egalitarianism favors global egalitarianism, whereas statism, as is also hinted by its name, denies that egalitarianism has scope beyond the borders of the domestic state. The chapter focuses on cosmopolitanism and statism as they pertain to the special question of global egalitarianism. It shows that the cosmopolitanism/statism divide provides competing philosophical starting points or perspectives on global justice more broadly. Cosmopolitan egalitarianism does not mean that there is no space within global justice for national projects and expressions of collective self-determination. The coercion argument claims that egalitarianism matters among persons within a political association because of the special fact of state coercion.
