This article calls for a re-conceptualization of the social sciences by asking for a cosmopolitan turn. The intellectual undertaking of redefining cosmopolitanism is a trans-disciplinary one, which includes geography, anthropology, ethnology, international relations, international law, political philosophy and political theory, and now sociology and social theory. Methodological nationalism, wh...

The armed forces of the United States do not and cannot operate in isolation from the larger American society. They are part of a polity whose needs they must serve. Moreover, to win the trust and support of the larger polity, the armed services must be widely perceived as serving important social needs. Without this trust and support, the armed forces will not get the resources they need to fu...

The history of Switzerland is outlined briefly with special reference to evolution from unilingual to quadrilingual polity. Official modern language policy in the four language territories is described, with data on language boundaries and relative number of speakers. Extent of individual (as against societal) multilingualism in Switzerland is described, in conjunction with language attitudes a...

This paper deals with the relation between a county’s type of polity, its duration, and its growth rate. Results indicate that, over time, as regimes grow older, long-standing democratic regimes are relatively more successful than autocracies with the same history of duration. The relation found does not seem to be driven by older, wellestablished democracies nor by any particular income group....

Social simulation models from computational social science are beginning to provide significant advances in terms of implementing more complex social, human, and natural dynamics that are characteristic of how realworld countries operate. The MASON RebeLand model presents three innovations: (1) an explicit polity model with politically complete structure and processes; (2) social and natural mo...

1 See, for example, J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action. Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, trans. T. McCarthy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987 [1981]), hereafter TCA I, pp. xli and xliv. See also J. Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action, trans. B. Fultner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001 [1984]), p...