Cosmopolitanism in Conflict

Explores the history of cosmopolitan thought and feeling through the lens of war Develops new vistas on the genealogy of cosmopolitan thought and internationalist practice Examines Western European cosmopolitan tradition in a global context

Dina Gusejnova is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, UK, Chicago, USA, University College London, UK and Queen Mary University, UK. Gusejnova is the author of European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-57 (2016).

Chapter 1. Introduction; Dina Gusejnova.- Chapter 2. Rules of Engagement in Eighteenth-Century European Wars; Stephen Conway.- Chapter 3. Kant's Subaltern Period: the Birth of Cosmopolitanism from the Spirit of Occupation; Alexander Etkind.- Chapter 4. The Napoleonic Wars: Reading Perpetual Peace in the Russian Empire; Maria Mayofis.- Chapter 5. Modern Muslim Cosmopolitanism Between the Logics of Race and Empire; Cemil Aydin.- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism in modern British political thought: continuities and discontinuities; Georgios Varouxakis.- Chapter 7. A citadel without citizens: Brest-Litovsk as a site of political disorientation; Dina Gusejnova.- Chapter 8. The languages of Caucasian cosmopolitanism: twentieth-century Baku at the crossroads; Zaur Gasimov.- Chapter 9.- Kantian Cosmopolitanism, Stalinist kosmopolitizm, and the making of Kaliningrad; Olga Sezneva.- Chapter 10.The impartial voice: the BBC's corporate cosmopolitanism between empire and Cold War;Marie Gillespie and Eva Nieto McAvoy.