A reply to my critics

ABSTRACT

My five critics all raise important points, giving reasons for viewing my account as either insufficiently or overly realist or utopian. By and large, I stick to my guns in regarding my version of a realistic Utopia of a republican association of states as the most plausible way of achieving a non-dominating global order capable of meeting the moral and functional challenges to state sovereignty posed by cosmopolitanism and globalisation respectively.

KEYWORDS:

• Cosmopolitanism
• statism
• republicanism
• realism
• Rawls
• demoicracy
• intergovernmentalism

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Richard Bellamy

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College London (UCL), University of London. His most recent books are A Republican Europe of States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU, (Cambridge University Press, 2019); (with Dario Castiglione), From Maastricht to Brexit: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU, (ECPR Press/Rowman and Littlefield, 2019); and (with Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer) Flexible Europe: Fairness, Democracy, and Differentiated Integration, (Bristol University Press/Policy Press, 2022)