ABSTRACT
This chapter argues decolonial cosmopolitanism as an option parallel in friendship sometimes and contention in others, with other co-existing options: liberal cosmopolitanism, Marxist cosmopolitanism, and postmodern cosmopolitanism. It would be necessary to understand how Eurocentered cosmopolitanism operated by inventing, transforming, and maintaining imperial and colonial differences. Cosmopolitanism was more common in the scholarship while globalization crossed the academy with institutional politics and international organisms. Border thinking and decolonial cosmopolitanism are also responses to the particular structure of the imperial equation. But a new player enters the "cosmo-polis" game toward the end of the twentieth century: "dialogue among civilizations." Dialogue among civilizations shall be based on cosmopolitan localism under the universal belief that no human being and no country have the right to dominate another human being and to control other countries. If cosmopolitanism is thinkable, it should be in a world where imperial and colonial differences are erased, and cosmopolitan dialogism shall contribute to erase imperial and colonial differences.
