Advocates of cosmopolitan citizenship
maintain that citizenship can also refer to
dispositions and practices which can be harnessed
to transform political community and
the global order so that they conform with
universalistic moral commitments. One of
its main roles is to persuade national citizens
that they have fundamental moral responsibilities
to outsiders which must not be sacrificed
for the sake of national interests. The
universal human rights culture is deemed to
be evidence of the emerging law of world
citizens; cosmopolitan citizenship is thought
to be exemplified by the increasing global
role of INGOs and by efforts to promote the
democratisation of world politics.