ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of several proposals for a league or concert of democracies. It introduces Cosmopolitanism as a foundation for political globalization, as distinguished from economic and cultural globalization. The whole cosmopolitan tradition asserts the opposite, citing massive verifiable benefits of developments, while arguing that the significant problems created by economic, epistemic, and cultural globalization are much better addressed by global law and stronger global civil society, rather than by an inevitably futile attempt at isolationist retreat. As Ulrich Beck argues, we should distinguish economic globalization from growing cross-border social connections, issue campaigns, and transnational Non-governmental organizations. Many ills of economic and media globalization, such as expanding trade in dangerous weapons, the spread of terrorist ideologies, monopolies in multinational industries, dilution of safety and environmental standards, violent global market swings, and small nations specializing in tax-haven services, are due to insufficient transnational regulation.
