Cosmopolitanism: A plausible political project Bermejo Luque, Lilian Rodríguez Alcázar, Francisco Javier cosmopolitanism political realism political moralism political minimalism metapolitics The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors wish to thank the Spanish Ministry of Science Innovation and Universities for funding their research through the project PID2023-147881NB-I00. Cosmopolitanism is usually defended on a moral basis. Because of that, it seems to be available only for political moralists. In this paper, we propose a non-moralist foundation for cosmopolitanism rooted in the metapolitical framework provided by political minimalism. This framework articulates a distinction between ethics and politics on the one hand, and between politics and metapolitics on the other. Through this lens, we argue that cosmopolitanism should be understood as a political normative position, rather than an ethical, metaethical, or metapolitical thesis. In addition, political minimalism allows us to provide a novel argument in favour of cosmopolitanism by conceptualizing the global political community in a way that avoids the utopianism often associated with other conceptions of cosmopolitanism, thereby strengthening its overall plausibility. 2025-11-13T12:17:38Z 2025-11-13T12:17:38Z 2025 journal article Published version: Bermejo-Luque, L., & Rodríguez-Alcázar, J. (2025). Cosmopolitanism: A plausible political project. Journal of International Political Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882251390858 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/107968 10.1177/17550882251390858 eng open access Sage