Abram Trosky

In his 1999 afterward to Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz describes the tension between the cosmopolitan and social liberal conception of the morality of states as “the main challenge facing international political theory”. Beitz as well as John Rawls cast their lot with the former conception, intimating that complex interdependence ought not nullify the moral significance of the national community. However, environmental challenges and the fact of ecological interdependence demand substantive transnational cooperation more consonant with cosmopolitan liberalism. What insights can eco-phenomenology offer international political theory?