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Cosmopolitanism sees global capital as a possible threat to the nation state and places it within a meta-power game in which global capital, states and civil society are its players. It is important to mark a distinction between Beck's cosmopolitanism and the idea of a world state.
The victory of Western liberal states ending the Cold War inspired the hope that international relations could be guided by the ideals of democracy and the rule of law.In the early 1990s, a group of thinkers developed the political project of cosmopolitan democracy with the aim of providing intellectual arguments in favour of an expansion of democracy, both within states and at the global level.
Cosmopolitan nationalism is a concept used to describe the dual tendency of combining local and global policy orientations in modern education studies.The concept describes the conflicting pressures within national education structures to promote internationalization and a global gaze, while also seeking to remain locally relevant and a primary contributor to national projects of economic ...
A couple of miles to the southwest is Negishi Forest Park, dominated by the towering grandstand of the former Nippon Race Club. The grandstand is all that remains of Japan’s first Western-style ...
Cosmopolitan distributions can be observed both in extinct and extant species. For example, Lystrosaurus was cosmopolitan in the Early Triassic after the Permian-Triassic extinction event. [11] In the modern world, the orca, the blue whale, and the great white shark all have cosmopolitan distribution, extending over most of the Earth's oceans.
World government (7 C, 73 P) Pages in category "Cosmopolitanism" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
An example of the successful use of open sources within communities is the local production of wind turbines. Based on open technologies that are available on the Internet [ 17 ] , local communities in various countries around the world self-organized and assembled wind turbines from scrap materials to power local hospitals, schools or private ...
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...