Home Year XXV, Number 3, November 2012

Politics and Economics in the Globalization Era

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    Lucio Levi
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    President of UEF Italy, Member of WFM Council and UEF Federal Committee

     

 

The most significant aspect of globalization is essentially political. It lies in the tension between the development of those forces of production that are unifying the world and the structures of the nation-states, which should, but cannot, govern the globalization process because of their dimension. Globalization is not merely a quantitative increase in social relationships and exchanges at the world level but also a qualitative change, rooted in the scientific revolution, in material production. Alongside the national societies and markets, it also creates a global civil society and a global market. It is a process which escapes from the states’ control and in fact subjects state structures to so much strain that they are forced to adapt their own practices to these changing dimensions of economic and social relations.  As a result, a vast movement of ideas has taken place, not only in economic thinking but also in policymaking. After the accession to power of Margaret Thatcher (1979) and Ronald Reagan (1981), it took the form of “market fundamentalism”, an expression popularized by George Soros. Its basic tenet is that the free play of market forces promotes the universal spread of wealth, freedom and peace. According to this ideology, markets are capable of regulating themselves and therefore do not need any public regulation. Any interference in market mechanisms is rejected. Therefore, the globalization era would mark the withering of the state and politics.

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Political Union to Avert a Collapse

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    Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
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    Professor of History of Law at the University of
    Milano, Italy
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Questions about Federalism

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    Robert Toulemon
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    Honorary Director at the European Commission,  Author of Sauvons l’Europe, Paris (France)

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Minimalists of Europe

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    Barbara Spinelli
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    Columnist of the Italian Newspaper la Repubblica
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Desirable Effects of a European Plan for Sustainable Development

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    Simone Vannuccini
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    Doctoral Student in Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena; Secretary General of
    JEF-Italy
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Achieving a Common European Defence

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    Giancarlo Chevallard
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    Member of the Board of the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Torino (Italy)

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Federalism at Every Level and Territorial Cohesion

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    Alfonso Sabatino
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    Member of UEF Federal Committee
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Federalism and Peace-building in Ethnic Conflicts

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    Colin Cogitore
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    Institute of Peace and Conflicts at the University of Granada, Spain
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Steps on the Path to Global Justice

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    Joseph Schwartzberg
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    Professor Emeritus in Geography at the University of Minnesota, USA

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Development as Freedom

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    Karen Hamilton
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    Chair of the Executive for WFM-Canada, Secretary of the Executive of WFM and General
    Secretary of The Canadian Council of Churches

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International Justice, Promoting Rule of Law and Defending Human Rights

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    Bill Pace
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    WFM Executive Director
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2.0 and 3.0 International Criminal Court

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    Fernando A. Iglesias
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    Democracia Global-ArgentinaVicePresident, Altiero Spinelli Chair Director, WFM Council Chair

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Civitas, or Rather the Global City of Civilitas

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    Mario Fadda
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    Associate Professor of Town and Country Planning, Polytechnic School of Torino (Italy)
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For Robert Mundell “The Euro is Here to Stay”

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    Elena Flor
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    Member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Unit at Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Italy
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Green Economy: an Ecological Contradiction or a Governance Challenge?

  • Borderless Debate

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    Joan Marc Simon
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    Member of WFM Executive Committee and apGDM and Member of UEF Federal Committee

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Rio+20: Continuing to Hope

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    Roberto Palea
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    President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Torino (Italy)

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Venezuela is officially a Mercosur Member State

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On ICJ Referral Jurisdiction

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    Joseph Preston Baratta
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    Professor in World History and International Relations at the Worcester State College, USA
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The New Social Media and Political Change

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    Giampiero Bordino
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    Professor in Contemporary History and Political Analyst, Torino (Italy)

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The West in the New World Order

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    Roberta Carbone
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    President of JEF Turin (Italy), Master student in Brussels at the Institute for European Studies
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Achilles (Wall Street) and the Turtle (Brussels)

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    Antonio Mosconi
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    President of the Einstein Center for International Studies, Torino (Italy)
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