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The purpose of this study is to discuss and elaborate the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty in the works of two contemporary thinkers. The concept of cosmopolitanism, which took its shape within stoic philosophy, began to be used in juridical and political contexts with the advent of Enlightenment. In Thomas Pogge’s study on the problems of global poverty and within the analyses that David Held develops around globalization discussions, new approaches are developed based on the cosmopolitan narratives ranging from Westphalian sovereignty to nationstates and today’s liberal democracies. Pogge attempts to develop an institutional approach to rearrange the concept of sovereignty in the vertical dimension by taking all the cosmopolitan elements into consideration in order to reform the human rights. Held, on the other hand, differentiates the classical and liberal forms of sovereignties and depicts the present problems. Also he puts forward cosmopolitan principles and proposes a concept of sovereignty. By elaborating on the approaches developed by Held and Pogge, it seems possible to create solutions to the contemporary problems regarding human rights.

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