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Citizenship Political Theory Citizenship identities, and security, and be forced to migrate. Can citizenship provide a L ET’S D O IT D o solution to the problems of such people? If not, what kind of alternative List some of the identity can be provided today? Do we stateless people living need to try and evolve a more genuinely in India today. Write a universal identity than national short note on any of citizenship? Suggestions for a notion of them. global citizenship are sometimes put forward. The possibilities will be discussed in the next section. 6.6 G LOBAL C ITIZENSHIP Consider the following statements: □ There was an outpouring of sympathy and help for the victims of the tsunami which affected a number of countries in South Asia in 2004. □ International networks link terrorists today. □ The United Nations is working with different states to try and prevent the spread of bird flu and the possible emergence of a human viral pandemic. What is common to the statements given above? What do they tell us about the world in which we live today? We live today in an interconnected world. New means of communication such as the internet, and television, and cell phones, have brought a major change in the way in which we understand our world. In the past it might have taken months for news about developments in one part of the world to become known in other parts. But new modes of communication have put us into immediate contact with developments in different parts of the globe. We can watch disasters and wars on our television screens as they are taking place. This has helped to develop sympathies and shared concerns among people in different countries of the world. Supporters of global citizenship argue that although a world 94 community and global society does not yet exist, people already feel Reprint 2026-27