PUTTING COSMOPOLITANISM INTO PRACTICE - THE CASE OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM

Cosmopolitan approaches to International Relations have generally fail ed to address the practical implications of their postulates. This pap er examines how one international social movement-international social ism-attempted to put the theoretical tenets of cosmopolitanism into po litical practice. The author explores the various obstacles encountere d by the movement and, based on this analysis, it is argued that two h istorical forces-class and the state-should lie at the centre of any r eformulation of cosmopolitan politics.