The nationalist picture of morality, and the Cosmopolitanism vie w that one’s primary moral obligations are directed to all human beings

 The nationalist picture of morality traditionally has been quite close to the dominant view in the theory of international relations called “realism”. Put starkly, the view is that morality ends at the boundaries of the nation-state; beyond there is nothing but anarchy

Many aruge that this view  seems arid, abstract, and unmotivated by comparison. 

By cosmopolitanism we refer to moral and political doctrines claiming that

1. one’s primary moral obligations are directed to all human beings (regardless of geographical or cultural distance),
2.  and
3. political arrangements should faithfully reflect this universal moral obligation (in the form of supra-statist arrangements that take precedence over nation-states).

Confronted with opposing forces of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, many philosophers opt for a mixture of liberalism-cosmopolitanism and patriotism-nationalism