Download or read book Cosmopolitanism in a Multipolar World written by J. Plagemann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an analysis of the changing practice of sovereignty in Brazil, India and South Africa, this book argues that soft sovereignty provides an adequate, yet unrecognized, basis for a moderate, embedded and plural cosmopolitanism situated between globalism's demand for a world state and statism's defence of the status quo.