The Cosmopolitan Democracy Project: A Critical Approach

Abstract

This article serves to present one of the basic ideological by‐products of so‐called “globalization”: the theory of Cosmopolitan Democracy (CD) outlining its basic assertions and to criticize them. Our main position is that despite its ostensibly innovatory problematic, it essentially comprises nothing more than acceptance of a “progressive” variety of capitalist domination on a global scale. The CD’ s positions do not lead to more radical management of global affairs but rather to an acceptance of conservative orientations in which the supremacy of the imperialist states can be reinforced.