Essays on Cosmopolitanism

Kwame Nkrumah’s “Unite Now or Perish” Speech As a ‘Classic’ Text in International Relations

Introduction In his May 24, 1963, speech at the inauguration of the OAU Conference in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, doctor Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, gave a stirring speech with a clarion call “we must unite now or perish.” In his speech, he advocated for a strong Union of Independent African States to form one block of states. Nkrumah was convinced that it was only through unity that African states which were getting themselves slowly off the colonial hook would achieve development or progress. According to him, with such a unity, the continent would be able to stand up ...

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Cornell University, Country in Arial 9 Roxanne Grenier North America Abstract As of 2014, 38 million people worldwide have been driven out of their own homes by internal instabilities, armed conflict, and outbreaks of violence. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alone accounts for 2.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). In response, relief-driven charitable practices have consequently created a condition of permanent impermanence, perpetuating the problem of dependency, unemployment, and instability. This forced movement of culturally and geographically heterogeneous groups evokes questions of housing stability: How does migration impact the social, economic, and political standing of the refugees? Given ...

1. What is Cheah's response to the idea that "literature seems to have little pertinence in our era of economic globalization"? Why does he think that it does (26)? Cheah argues that cosmopolitanism is defined as an activity wherein the reader must participate, and use his imagination to construct meaning. Cheah states, “World literature is an important aspect of cosmopolitanism because it is a type of world-making activity that enables us to imagine a world” (26). Thus, in spite of economic globalization, literature, to Cheah, retains its significance because it transcends national boundaries. 2. What reasons does ...

In the article, The Case of Contamination by Kwame Anthony Appiah, he focusses on the sensation of cultural change where he makes use of personal examples conveyed in an evocative narrative manner to show that cultural assimilation adopts various means. Today, people succumb to changes easily in the ways they like by creating new forms of difference like new religions, but it is not guaranteed that the effected changes will be liked as others end up being disliked. The example of global economy illustrates how changes can be favourable or unfavourable to others considering that it poses as a ...

Biological weapons are a huge concern across the world. The problems with the weapons are the destruction that can occur. Many of the countries have agreed to not use biological weapons or chemical weapons in war. The military had been prepared to intervene in the recent Syria attack of biological weapons. “The interventions they were going to use was to set up a no-fly zone” . Another option after establishing no-fly areas is to set up safe zones. This zone would allow the military to pin-point an attack on the enemies who are using the biological weapons. Many of the ...