ABSTRACT
This chapter lays out a distinctive cosmopolitan theory of justice that is grounded in the inherent value of communities rather than individuals. Communal-cosmopolitanism is sensitive to the fact of globalization in that it realizes that issues of justice are extensive and transcend the borders of not only nation-states, but the boundaries of any community. At the same time, communal-cosmopolitanism can accommodate the normative significance of communities in a way that most cosmopolitan theories do not. Communal-cosmopolitanism, like most versions of cosmopolitanism, is a global theory of moral and political obligation, but these obligations hold primarily between communities, not individuals.
