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An introduction to the journal is presented wherein the guest editors discusses various reports published in the issue including how residents in the slums of Mumbai, India aim to remake their community under their own terms, how power dynamics can be overturned and the role of informal actors in public life.

The article discusses the issues related to universities seeking to build international relations and work on a global scale, focusing on the Libyan Revolution of 2011 and several social scientists who were involved with Libyan higher education initiatives. It comments on late Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's politics, his attempts to improve relations with Western nations through improve diplomatic cooperation, and the distinction between public social science and public relations.

The article presents an essay on the relationship between nationalism and the culture of democracy. The author states that the nationalism is a distinctive form of solidarity. The author argued that nationalism as a form of solidarity has been the most effective and successful response to the challenges of integration posed by modernity. He develops the argument through demonstrating how democracy plays an important role in nation-state's integrative work. It is concluded that the cultures of democracy varied in different aspects.

This article examines how privatization impacts a host of areas in the United States. The author asserts that the early twenty-first century has seen a concerted effort to limit public protections and to privatize risk. The author also discusses the effect of rolling back the public provision of public goods, and of restructuring public communications on the basis of private property rights rather than any broader conception of communicative rights. In addition, the author reveals that the state funding for some of America's greatest public universities has decreased to as low as eight percent of their costs.

Examines the political theory of cosmopolitanism. Social struggles against neoliberal capitalism; Basis for democracy; Ideals of global civil society.

Discusses the concept of globalization in the context of social solidarity. Information on the idea of cosmopolitanism and constitutional patriotism; Conception of public discourse of as a form of social solidarity; Forms of social solidarity.