ABSTRACT
This chapter considers three significant 'moments' in the history of the cosmopolitan tradition: Stoicism, Kantian cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy. Cosmopolitan thinking can be found as early as the fourth century BC, although cosmopolitanism has received its most serious attention in the years since the end of the Cold War. Kant's approach to cosmopolitanism is based on a rigorous integration of his moral, legal and political philosophy. The cosmopolitan model of democracy seeks to expand the levels of participatory politics and means of accountability through an adaptive 'system of diverse and overlapping power centres, shaped and delimited by democratic law'. As with the cosmopolitan democracy model, liberal internationalism offers an account of the possibility of the transcendance of power politics in international relations. The chapter also discusses some of the significant dimensions of global governance associated with processes of globalization.
