TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BOTTOM-UP APPROACH -- GLOBAL ACTION ROOTED IN THE LOCAL -- GLOBAL BUT UNEQUAL -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP -- REFERENCES -- 1. GLOBAL PRESENCE, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE GLOBAL CITIZEN -- REFERENCES -- 2. GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP - WHY DO WE NEED UTOPIAN VISIONS? -- TWO WAYS TO A GLOBAL WORLD? -- THE BEGINNING OF UTOPIA -- END OF UTOPIA OR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AS A NEW BEGINNING? -- DREAMING THE FUTURE -- UTOPIAS AS "MAGIC REALISM" -- JESUS A UTOPIAN VISIONARY? -- THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS UTOPIA -- THE ECONOMY OF THE KINGDOM -- WHO ARE THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY? -- UTOPIAN CHALLENGES -- HABERMAS: A GLOBAL HOUSEHOLDING -- A CHALLENGE RETURNED -- REFERENCES -- 3. LIVING GLOBALLY: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP OF CARE AS PERSONAL PRACTICE -- THIS IS ME -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: GLOBAL PILLAGING -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: NOT POSSIBLE, NOT DEFENDABLE, NOR DESIRABLE -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP OF GLOBAL FAMILY-BUILDING: INDISPENSABLE -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP OF UNITY IN DIVERSITY -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP OF CARE: A PROFOUNDLY PERSONAL PRACTICE… -- WHAT DO YOU NEED? -- REFERENCES -- 4. GLOBAL CITIZENS OF THE WORLD UNITE!: The Role of Collaborative Power in Response to Climate Change -- WHAT IS A GLOBAL CITIZEN? -- CLIMATE CHANGE AS A CATALYST FOR TRANSFORMATION -- THE POWER TO TRANSFORM -- Collaborative Power -- Change is a Choice -- REFERENCES -- 5. THE GLOBAL CITIZEN AND THE IMMORALITY OF POVERTY -- MORAL OBLIGATIONS: AGREEMENTS AND DISAGREEMENTS -- Everyone is morally required not to offer food assistance to the starving -- There is no general duty to help the poor -- Everyone must do as much as one can to help the world's poor -- POVERTY AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP -- Charity and obligation -- Our responsibilities as global citizens -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6. WOMEN'S SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS - OR GENDER EQUALITY? -- ABORTION.

CONTRACEPTION -- FGM -- SEXUAL RIGHTS -- 7. GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE CHALLENGE FROM CULTURAL RELATIVISM -- REFERENCES -- 8. THE IDEA OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE AGE OF ECOMODERNITY -- REFERENCES -- 9. GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP -- GLOBALIZATION AND NORMATIVE COSMOPOLITANISM -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: DEMOCRATIC VOTE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION IN TRUST-BUILDING INSTITUTIONS -- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: A FATA MORGANA? -- Global citizenship: Commitment to institutions and to a political theory -- Conflicting loyalties? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10. GLOBALISM - IN YOUR OWN INTEREST! -- GLOBALISM -- GLOBALIZATION -- WHY YOU SHOULD BE A GLOBALIST -- INSTITUTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 11. THE NATION STATE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATIONS - STONE DEAD OR REJUVENATED? -- 12. LEARNING AND LIVING DEMOCRACY -- BACKGROUND -- LEARNING AND LIVING DEMOCRACY: A SLOGAN AND CARRIER OF IDEOLOGY -- LEARNING DEMOCRACY -- LIVING DEMOCRACY -- NORWAY: STATE OF THE ART -- THE GOOD CITIZEN -- TEACHING THE GOOD CITIZEN -- THE GOOD NORWEGIAN CITIZEN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.