The State and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities

Richard Beardsworth is the EH Carr chair in International Politics, Head of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK, and Research Associate at the Institut des Etudes Politiques (SciPo), Paris. His research interests lie in international and political theory, in statecraft and global politics. His recent publications (articles, book chapters, essays) rehearse a Weberian and republican account of ethical responsibility towards global challenges that, re-aligning national and global interests, advances a new 'internationalist' narrative. Garrett Wallace Brown is Professor of Political Theory and Global Health Policy in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He co-leads the University of Leeds Global Health cross faculty theme and has produced extensive research at the crossroads between global health and moral philosophy. Outside of global health his research interests include cosmopolitan theory, Kant's cosmopolitanism, the laws of hospitality, global constitutionalism and key issues in global justice. He is the author of Grounding Cosmopolitanism: From Kant to the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution (EUP, 2009), The Cosmopolitanism Reader with David Held (Polity, 2010), and Kant's Cosmopolitics (EUP, 2019). Richard Shapcott is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane , Australia. He is the author Justice, Community, and Dialogue in International Relations (Cambridge 2001) and A Critical Introduction to International Ethics (Polity, 2010).