 The early Rawlsian cosmopolitans were enormously influential, and can be credited with forcing the attention of the philosophical community towards the issue of global underdevelopment and inequality. The theories, of course, were subject to enormous criticism, and Rawls himself rejected their conclusions, as we shall see. For the moment, we might note only that many theorists were skeptical of the conclusion that Rawls’s principles could apply as easily to the global community as to the domestic community. Two strands of criticism here deserve note: the first begins with coercion, and the second with the issue of nationality.