ABSTRACT
The above epigraph serves a useful purpose at the start of this short concluding section. Much as I would like to agree with Beck and Grande-in the sense that they are ‘fellow travellers’ determined to offer an interesting account of ‘cosmopolitan Europe’—I fi nd it diffi cult to do so, despite sharing their sense of the inadequacy of ‘one-worldism’. There are at least three reasons why I fi nd myself in disagreement with them. The fi rst is their conclusion, contained in the epigraph, that the ‘one-worldism’ found within sociological approaches to globalization has been ‘forever shattered’ by the cosmopolitan outlook. As I see it, the feathers of ‘one-worldism’ have hardly been ruffl ed, although the identifi cation of this way of thinking as a problem is certainly a step in the right direction.
