title: Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (Cultural Front)
author:  Bruce Robbins 
description: <strong>Bruce Robbins</strong> is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the editor of <em>Cosmopolites</em> and the author of <em>Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Inequality. </em>
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