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IB Global Politics HL - Relevant Theories | Q&A Latest 2025/2026 | 100% PASS Hyperglobalists - Answer -Argue that the state is a hollowed out institution and has become redundant. Post-sovereign governance - Answer -The rise of globalization means that the state inevitably becomes less important as a single actor. Cosmopolitanism - Answer -The advance of globalization has an ethical dimension. The world has shrunk; people have a greater awareness of people living in other countries and thus it has become more difficult to confine their moral obligations to a single political society: the more they know, the more they care. This implies that people have moral obligations (potentially) towards all other people in the world. Based on three principles: individualism (human beings are the ultimate unit of moral concern), universality (individuals are of equal moral worth), generality (people are objects of concern for everybody, not just their compatriots). O'Neill (1996) used the Kantian notion that we should act on principles that we would be willing to apply to all people in all circumstances. Singer (2002) talks about reducing the overall levels of global suffering, thinking in terms of one world rather than a collected of different people groups. Communitarianism - Answer -Moral values only make sense when they are grounded in a particular society/time period. Human beings are