ABSTRACT
The thesis of Danilo Zolo's chapter (Chapter Five) is a highly condensed version of his book Cosmopolis (1997). The argument of both sources is wide-ranging, complex and elusive. Its elusiveness is worth stressing. It is certainly not easy to pigeonhole Zolo's views, and they are of course all the more interesting for that. His work has a paradoxical character often appearing to combine positions that, in more conventional guise, are commonly thought to be mutually exclusive. Here, for example, is a writer who dons the mantle of pacifism while upholding the necessity and the value of war.
