The Cosmopolitan Globe is the hopeful picture of globalization: one market, liberal democracy as the hegemonic form, culture flowing freely across borders. I didn't kill it and I didn't wish it dead. In 2025 I just found it bleeding its life out on the street.
How the word moved
I coined it in March 2025, in the first part of The Pauper, and I named it mainly to bury it, Julius Caesar style. Its successor was already taking shape in the dark: the Securitarian Globe, a globalization run on security, surveillance and control.
In my words
"Let’s call this the ‘Cosmopolitan Globe.’"
from Bhumics Week 8: The Pauper, Part 1, 10 Mar 2025
Related
- Contradicts Securitarian Globe - That's what replaced it.
- Related Globe - It's one of the forms the Globe takes.
- Related Rules-Based International Order - The RBIO was its institutional machinery.