Cosmopolis and War

In a Cosmopolis, intra-species war will likely be a thing of the past, but not necessarily because humans have become perpetually peaceable.  Rather, since the group identifications, e. g. national, religious, that have usually determined the pre-conditions of hostilities, may become as quaint as a war between cities has become.  But, more important, any Cosmopolitical conflict will be internal, and, hence, a jurisprudential problem, either civil or criminal, as is foreshadowed by the concept of International Law, and by tribunals such as those at Nuremberg.  Thus, for example, the classification of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks as 'criminals', rather than as 'enemies', expresses a Cosmopolitical orientation, rather than a Nationalistic one.