| Political | World-state /institutional | Kant; Rawls; Held |
| Cosmopolitan Global Citizenship | cosmopolitanizmCosmopolitan democracyAnarcho-cosmopolitanism | MeGrew; Linklater; VCarter; Archibugi |
| Moral Cosmopolitan Global Citizenship | “Strong” cosmopolitanismHuman Rights-based “New” cosmopolitanism | Stoies; Kant; Nussbaum; Sen; Singer: Appiah |
| Economic Cosmopolitan Global Citizenship | Competitive / egocentricCorporate Social Responsibility / Philanthtopic | Smith; Quesnay; Hayek; Friedman |
| Cultural-aesthetic Cosmopolitan Global Citizenship | Identification with globalised forms of media and languages(“MTV / Internet generation”)Identification with awareness of cultures and individualsEvaluation of cultural generes | Nietzsche (ubermensch) |
| Critical (post-colonial)Global Citizenship | Post-development / post-colonialPost-Marxist | Escobar; Said; Gramsei; Marx; Frankfurt School; Critical pedagogy (e.g. Freire) |
| Positional Global Citizenship | Sociological discourse-based (e.g. feminism; race theory)Pragmatic and relationship-based: global civil society | Habermas (communicative rationality) |
| Environmental Global Citizenship | Ecocentric Anthropocentric | Dobson; Lovelock; envrio-scientific research |
| Spiritual Global Citizenship | Spiritual / humanist / Faith-based | Neddings; Danesh; religios texts |