Politics and Cosmopolitanism in a Global Age
Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought
Series Editors: Sebastiano Maffettone and Aakash Singh Rathore
Center for Ethics & Global Politics, Luiss University, Rome
Whereas the interrelation of ethics and political thought has been recognized since the dawn of political reflection, over the last sixty years roughly since the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights we have witnessed a particularly turbulent process of globalizing the coverage and application of that interrelation. At the very instant the decolonized globe consolidated the universality of the sovereign nation-state, that sovereignty and the political thought that grounded it was eroded and outstripped, not as in eras past, by imperial conquest and instruments of war, but rather by instruments of peace (charters, declarations, treaties, conventions), and instruments of commerce and communication (multinational enterprises, international media, global aviation and transport, internet technologies).
Has political theory kept apace with global political realities? Can ethical reflection illuminate the murky challenges of real global politics?
This Routledge book series Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought addresses these crucial questions by bringing together outstanding monographs and anthologies that deal with the intersection of normative theorizing and political realities with a global focus. Treating diverse topics by means of interdisciplinary techniques including philosophy, political theory, international relations and human rights theories, and global and postcolonial studies the books in the Series present up-to-date research that is accessible, practical, yet scholarly.
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Conflict Society and Peacebuilding: Comparative Perspectives
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Global Justice: Critical Perspectives
Editors: Sebastiano Maffettone and Aakash Singh Rathore
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Deprovincializing Habermas: Global Perspectives
Editors: Tom Bailey
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Between Ethics and Politics: Gandhi Today
Editors: Eva Pfstl
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Canned Heat: Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change
Editors: Marcello Di Paola and Gianfranco Pellegrino
ISBN 978-1-138-02027-6
Secularism, Religion, and Politics: India and Europe
Editors: Peter Losonczi and Walter Van Herck
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Politics and Cosmopolitanism in a Global Age
Editors
Sonika Gupta
Sudarsan Padmanabhan
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AIEI Association of Indian Engineering Industry
BSC Biome Stewardship Council
CCEUS Centre for Comparative European Union Studies
CPT Comparative Political Thought
ECHR European Court of Human Rights
EU European Union
FACES Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
GLOBE Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment
ICC International Criminal Court
ICISS The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
ICJ International Court of Justice
IITM Indian Institute of Technology Madras
INC Indian National Congress
IO International Organization
KDP Union of Democratic Filipinos
MNC Multinational Corporation
NAFTA North American Free Trade Association
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO Non-governmental Organization
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRI Non-resident Indian
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
PIO Person of Indian Origin
PPP Public-Private Partnership
R2P Responsibility to Protect
TRIPS (Agreement on) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
UN United Nations
UNSC United Nations Security Council
WTO World Trade Organization
Anatta Soul
Avidya Ignorance
Bhakti Devotion
Cit acit visishtam Brahman The Ultimate Reality is qualified by the Conscious and the Unconscious
Demos A group of individuals that share a name and a common territory and are aware of their identity as a community
Desa Place
Dharmasastras Various codes of conduct in a fractured polity
Din-i-Ilahi A new syncretized religion, centred on the ideal of one supreme reality
Dravida Nadu Dravidian nation
Gana sanghas Groups of various sanghas or social groups
Hindu Rashtra Hindu nation
Hrvatsvo Croatianness
Insan-i-Kamil The perfect man
Italianit Italianness
Kala Time
Kavyas Poetic works
Lakshana-lakshya Categorization in the ancient Indian classical literary theory and musicology, cosmopolitanvernacular socio-linguistic framework formalpragmatic
Laoi Followers of a leader
Lokasamgraha Welfare of the world at large
Marai Veda
Mexicanidad Mexicanness
Moksha Liberation
Mujtahid A scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
Neeti Formal justice
Nermai Honesty
Niskama karma Non-attached action
Nyaya/Nyayam Fairness
Paramarthika satta Transcendent realm
Paramarthika, Vyavaharika Distinction between the realm of Sanskrit cosmopolis and the vernacular
Plethos Mass of disorderly people
Praja A civic nation; people or subjects
Pravasi Bharatiya Indians abroad
Rajabhasha Official transactions; royal transactional language
Saranagati Self-surrender
Sarva dharma sama bhava Equal treatment of all religions
Sastra Scientific/formal authoritative texts on religion, science and law