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The Boundless Cosmopolitan

For Citizens of the World

Monday, August 4, 2008

News and opinion of the day.

From the Economist-
Undoing the damage: What Italy hopes to gain by making amends to a former colony

The Long Dark War: Two saddening accounts of the botched war on terror 

From the International Herald Tribune-

Two ways of looking at the Lisbon Treaty

A close call for democracy in Turkey

With Flemish Nationalism on the Rise, Belgium Teeters on the Edge

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The Boundless Cosmopolitan Reading List

Cosmopolitan Vision, by Ulrich Beck

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time), by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, by Lawrence Harrison and Samuel Huntington

Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict, by Bradley Thayer

Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen

Global Futures, edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, by Franklin Foer

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time), by Amartya Sen

George Soros On Globalization, by George Soros

On Human Nature, by E.O. Wilson

One Planet, One People: Beyond "Us vs. Them", by Carl Coon

One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition (The Terry Lectures Series), by Peter Singer

Perpetual Peace, by Immanuel Kant

The Anatomy of Peace, by Emery Reves

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel Huntington

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs

The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, by Jeremy Rifkin

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Revised Edition, by Fareed Zakaria

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation, by Strobe Talbott

The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall, by Ian Bremmer

The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria

World Federation?: A Critical Analysis of Federal World Government, by Ronald Glossop