Cosmopolitanism, Nation-State, & Global Problems

Question for Thesis

• To what extent can cosmopolitanism bring solutions to the problems faced by nation-states?
• To what extent can cosmopolitanism deal with the issued faced by nation-states 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:

1. human security
2. pandemics
3. environmental

Can we say that the nation-state is still the best administrative entity to face the challenges of the 21st century?

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 1999