Introduction: cosmopolitanism and Europe / Chris Rumford -- Cosmopolitanism and Europe: historical considerations and contemporary applications / Vivienne Boon and Gerard Delanty -- Reinventing Europe-a cosmopolitan vision / Ulrich Beck -- Cosmopolitan Europe, post-colonialism and the politics of imperialism / Nick Stevenson -- Cosmopolitanism and Europe: describing elites or challenging inequalities / Paul Jones -- Out of Europe: human rights and prospects for cosmopollitan democracy / Kate Nash -- The European information society: a new public sphere? / Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins -- Cultural Europeanization and the 'cosmopolitan condition': European Union regulation and European sport / Maurice Roche -- The language of democracy: vernacular or Esperanto? A comparison of the multiculturalist and cosmopolitan perspectives / Daniel Archibugi -- Memories of Europe: cosmopolitanism and its others / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider -- Social indicators of cosmopolitanism and localism in Eastern and Western Europe: an exploratory analysis / Victor Roudometof and William Haller -- Cosmopolitanism, collective belonging and the borders of the European Union / Maria Rovisco -- Security: cosmopolitanism and European / F. Peter Wagner -- Figures of the cosmopolitan: privileged nationals and national outsiders / Eleonore Kofman.