(Panteion University of Social and Political Studies, Athens, Greece)

Abstract: This article examines the role of cosmopolitan international theory as a factor to formulate International Relations in a demanding globalized co-existence; this article focuses on the case of European institutional and political identity within the features of cosmopolitanism regarding its values and an updated political interpretation. Furthermore, the article examines whether a transformation of “state sovereignty” is possible and in which framework, European “demos” within the revolution of global citizenship, narratives as basic components of the post-national era in international politics, thus aims to bring in the fore a recent discussion which implicates both European and International politics and the crucial role of citizens in times of crisis, as an opportunity of a changing point in the political order.