Introduction : cosmopolitanism as a politics of space -- From a sociology of the EU to a social theory of Europe -- The borders and borderlands of Europe : a critique of Balibar -- Europe's cosmopolitan borders -- "Spaces of wonder" : the global politics of strangeness -- Empire and the hubris of the "high-point" -- Postwesternization -- The world is not enough : globalization reconsidered -- Concluding thoughts : the spaces of critical cosmopolitanism.