CEVAP:

Starting with the early 1970s some world-order scholars have come to be known as cosmopolitanists. These scholars have had such common views on international relations:

• Environmental conditions pose a threat to order. As a result, the state has become obsolete as a political organization and it should be modified and preferably transformed in the long run;

• A specific understanding of justice, “distributive justice,” should be achieved at the global level;

• A global community is on the rise and that community would help achieve distributive justice;

• In this process many new institutions both above and below the state level would be necessary to establish.