World Citizenship and Government

Download or read book World Citizenship and Government written by D. Heater and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-06-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stoics, Dante, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, H.G. Wells, world federalists, would-be reformers of the United Nations, and many others have all thought, albeit in very different ways, in cosmopolitan or world terms. This book traces the history of western political thinking about world citizenship and the world state. It analyses the manifold forms in which the basic concept of a world polity has been expounded and shows that, despite objections to the very notion and its failure to be implemented, it still remains a potent ideal.