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Shoot me a PM and I'll send you an email address you can send it to, if you're comfortable with that. It'll probably be the best way to send me your thesis. Or, upload it into dropbox to share. I should state: some advisors do push students to guard your thesis carefully. If you're on your way to a Ph D or reworking the material for publication, I would be careful of distribution. I'm an American Labor historian, my studies in cosmopolitanism are not yet professional, but one of curiosity.

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I assume you've read this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitanism-Ethics-World-Strangers-Issues/dp/039332933X

Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

If not, it is an absolute must. Appiah makes an argument for westerners to be able to hold a cosmopolitan worldview all the while rejecting imperialism. It's a fine line to walk. I would think if you're making the claim of cosmo + nationalism you would need this as a foundational text. The next step would be to state that a given place, i would think, can hold a standard of values/beliefs cohesively (a nation) and that can be valued by the individual, all the while a global/cosmopolitan set of values can be held for an international cohesion. Appiah belies certain Marxist tendencies and Socialist critique of capitalism. While he doesn't explicitly state he is a Marxist Cosmopolitan, he's close, and at least his enemies would likely label him as such.

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Few Marxists, in my experience, the single best text is Gilbert Achcar's Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism. It's a collection of Achcar's essays, the last of which is titled Marxism and Cosmopolitanism.

https://www.amazon.com/Marxism-Orientalism-Cosmopolitanism-Gilbert-Achcar/dp/1608463648/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=marxism+orientalism+cosmopolitanism&qid=1564057114&s=books&sr=1-1

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I hope this helps illuminate your journey!