List of Tables Introduction; A.Krossa & R.Robertson Why European Cosmopolitanism?; A.Krossa Some Comments on Cosmopolitanism and Europe; R.Holton Cosmopolitanism in Social Theory: An Ambivalent Defense; D.Chernilo Divided Time: Notes on Cosmopolitanism and the Theory of Second Modernity; A.Langenohl Cosmopolitanism as a Concept for Tolerant Demarcation; J.Schraten Cosmopolitan Liberalism and its Limits; C.Calhoun Cosmopolitan Trends across World Regions: Discerning a European Exceptionalism; V.Roudometof & W.Haller The Obama Effect: Confronting the Political and and the Cosmopolitics of the Real; P.Werbner European Cosmopolitanism and the Global Field; R.Robertson Bibliography Index