Terms such as "cosmopolitanism" and "globalization" have come to mean so many things that begins to be doubtful the opportunity and utility use. But even worn it is difficult to do without them when you want to present some core issues about the role of law, the State or justice in the world today.

The studies collected in this volume are not intended to close the various discussions on the scope of such concepts. Rather leave open in different ways the main stress to which the title refers, is there to choose between State and Cosmopolis when asked for the most basic standards of justice and the main forms and functions that today, in a world interdependent and complex, it takes the law?

Around the axis of the tension between state and Cosmopolis, the authors faced in its problematic character, a wide range of issues. Is being out of phase the 'Westphalian' system states continue and should remain as essential as in the past centuries? Are you changing the nature of politics and law, as suggested by the notions of governance and soft law? They can be weighed some basic criteria for a just global order? Is it really justifiable democracy beyond the state level? Does the moral and political pluralism is compatible with the cosmopolitan proposals? Can we find a tendency to transnationality in complex discussions of feminist theory in recent years? Where do I draw the line of the intolerable, not only in the political sphere but also in religious? Corruption in international markets is not parallels a profound delegitimization of Law and State?