
Contemporary global politics poses urgent challenges - from humanitarian, migratory and environmental problems to economic, religious and military conflicts - that strain not only existing political systems and resources, but also the frameworks and concepts of political thinking...

This book develops a 'contestatory' alternative to the standard cosmopolitan approach to global politics. Rather than invoking a sense of global community, abstracted from the particular and the conflictual, this 'contestatory' alternative roots cosmopolitanism in the particularity...