ABSTRACT
Having reviewed the successes and failures of republicanism and cosmopolitanism
in the first decade of the twenty-first century, one does well to remember that
political sensibilities are eternally in flux. Although Kenneth Adelman suggested
that neo-conservatism would remain dormant for at least a generation, one may
safely predict a resurgence of American republicanism in some form sooner than
that.1 European heads of state have already begun the process of finding a substitute
for the Constitutional Treaty. In 2007, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then
occupying the rotating EU presidency, called for a new agreement in time for the
2009 European parliamentary elections.2 Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, completes his
second term as president in 2008. Under Russian law circa 2007, he cannot serve a
third, and there is no way to know how long or how successfully his successors will
maintain the republican elements of his policies.
