Resumen de Europe as a Cosmopolitan Global Actor
Cosmopolitanism offers considerable possibilities in terms of tying down and better understanding the European experience. But the bulk of the academic discussion to date has been theoretical, with few attempts to move out of the ivory tower into the practical realities of life on the ground for ordinary Europeans or European policy. This paper will attempt to explore cosmopolitan ideas as they relate to Europe´s place in the world, and particularly as they relate to three concepts widely associated with Europe´s foreign policy efforts: civilian power, soft influence, and multilaterialism. These examples will be reviewed in terms of the new light that cosmopolitanism might shed on European ides about the dynamics of international relations.
