1. Setting the scene: international relations as political theory -- 2. Cosmopolitanism and critical cosmopolitanism -- 3. Developmental communitarianism: liberal ambitions, secular approaches -- 4. Critical constructivism: Onora O'Neill on moral and institutional cosmopolitanism -- 5. Secular Hegelianism: Mervyn Frost and the limits of developmental communitarianism -- 6. Michael Walzer: moral creativity and the minimalist universalism of reiteration -- 7. John Rawls, developmental communitarianism and international ethics