To what extent can cosmopolitanism bring solutions to the problems faced by Turkey?
To what extent can cosmopolitanism deal with the issued faced by Turkey with regard human security, human rights, and illegal immigration in the era of globalization
Under what conditions can cosmopolitanism bring solutions to nation-states and the challenges they face in the era of globalization?
Challenges:
- human security
Can we say that Turkey can best face the challenges of the 21st century in its form as nation-state?
According to David Held and Anthony Mc Grew, the nation-state system is still the best way to fight global problems, because it is only if states collaborate together that such problems be tackled. (The Global Transformations Reader"To what extent is the nation-state still the best administrative entity to provide human security for its citizens and face the challenges of the 21st century?
Ulrich Beck, in turn, says in his article entitled "Democracy Beyond the Nation-State" that "there is a new dialectic of the global and the local that is not easy to accommodate in national politics. It can be adequately presented and resolved only in a transnational context.For just that purpose the new political subject is necessary: cosmopolitan parties that represent transnational matters transnationally, but do so within the political arenas of nation-states." http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1523 199.
- David Held -- National Democracies need international cosmopolitical democracy. Reconfiguration of political power
- Ulrich Beck -- International law is based on cosmopolitan principles/tolerance. Nation-state is over, cosmopolitan state system is the solution
- Governance & Transnational Studies -- Methodoligical Nationalism: Nation-state is key order for studying major social, political processes. Nation-State does not capture transnational linkages. Unable to capture multi-dimensional processes of change Methodological Cosmopolitanism:
Will Kymlicka, in his article Liberal Nationalism and Cosmopolitan Justice, assesses Sheila Benhabib's 'democratic iteration' concept promoting liberal nation-states as opposed to a cosmopolitan order. Noting that nation-states find themselves within a transition period with their multicultural and multinational composition, Kymlicka acknowledged that the "pursuit of liberal nationhood" has been responsible for some of the gravest injustices in the world and observes the 'taming liberal nationhood' approach to preserve the benefits of a liberal nation-state while reducing its risks. Explaining that this same process is described as 'transcending liberal nationhood' by those trying to build new forms of 'postnational' or 'cosmopolitan' citizenship, Kymlicka writes that even the developments in Europe and the EU can be better understood with his approach.
