Cosmopolitanism and Global Democratization: Project or Process?

This chapter intends to engage with one of the core issues of the political tradition of cosmopolitanism, that of global democracy. It aims to articulate critically the phenomenon of transnational exclusion and to propose an alternative conception of democracy beyond borders, keeping a multidisciplinary perspective that includes insights from all three strands of contemporary cosmopolitan research. Reinterpreting the cosmopolitan ideal in the light of marginalized people and suggesting an inclusive institutional design as a further development of ongoing processes of social transformation, this chapter bridges these dimensions of cosmopolitan thinking.