World citizen
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World citizen is a term with a variety of meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship.
- The United Nations issues an award called Citizen of the World.
- It may be used by activists promoting an integrated, supranational world government.
- It may sometimes refer to persons promoting internationalism, predicated on the closer cooperation of sovereign states.
- The Bahá'í Faith promotes a concept of international unity akin to world citizenship.
See also
- Anationalism, an Esperanto-based movement for the suppression of nationalism.
- Anti-nationalism, the humanist or humanitarian form of which generally corresponds to the world citizen concept.
- Cosmopolitanism
- Global justice
- Perpetual traveler
- Transnationalism
External links
- Cosmopolitanism at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Living in the World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck at the London School of Economics
- Great Transition Initiative Paper Series Global Politics and Institutions, paper #3 , and Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement , paper #15, explore the potential for the emergence of a cosmopolitan identity and corresponding institutions