num_pages: 162
description: The cosmopolites are literally citizens of the world from the Greek word kosmos meaning world and polites or citizen. Garry Davis aka World Citizen No. 1 and creator of the World Passport was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism sovereign borders and war. Today there are cosmopolites of all stripes rich or poor intentional or unwitting from 1-percenters who own five passports thanks to tax-havens to the Bidoon the stateless people of countries like the United Arab Emirates. Journalist Atossa Abrahamian herself a cosmopolite travels around the globe to meet the people who have come to embody an increasingly fluid borderless world.Along the way you are introduced to a colorful cast of characters including passport-burning atheist hackers the new Knights of Malta California libertarian seasteaders who are residents of floating city-states Bidoons who have been forced to be citizens of the island nation Comoros entrepreneurs in the business of buying and selling passports cosmopolites who live on a luxury cruise ship called The World and shady businessmen with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad.
language: English
title: The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen
publisher: Columbia Global Reports