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CULTURA DI DAVOS E DENAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE ÉLITE IN SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
No full textAs part of the ongoing debate on the rise and decline of the West, this essay analyzes the origin and development of Samuel P. Huntington’s critique of the idea of “universal civilization”, from The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) to Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (2004). The paper will focus on the concepts of “Davos Culture” and “Davos Man”, framing by Huntington, as well as the terms “cosmopolitan elites” versus “nationalist publics,” used by the author to describe the coming “global class warfare” of the 21st century.
IDENTITÀ E ITERAZIONI DEMOCRATICHE IN SEYLA BENHABIB.VERSO UN ALTRO COSMOPOLITISMO?
No full textSince the end of the Twentieth century, the socio-cultural boundaries of political communities have been challenged, state sovereignty has been frayed and an intensification of antagonisms related to religious, ethnic and cultural issues has emerged. Within this framework, this paper intends to investigate whether the “democratic iterations” envisioned by Seyla Benhabib (2004) allow the “abstract” normativism of Rawls and Habermas to be overcome, without renouncing the foundations of their discourse ethics. Therefore, the contribution’s aim is to analyse how Benhabib’s proposal of a deliberative democracy opens to cultural integration and gender emancipation lets new processes of multicultural identity’s construction to begin, in view of a new model of cosmopolitan citizenship
GUERRA E PACE NELLA TEORIA POLITICA CONTEMPORANEA
No full textThe international principles developed over time are disregarded, but confirmed by the evidence of facts; the war, which became “a pieces", must now be managed across the board, with the involvement of those not directly involved, they have so far kept aloof; considering that globalization no longer allows the use of politics power. The essential task to which the West should therefore once again dedicating oneself is to narrating, explaining to public opinions the components and perspectives of the current international situation are disoriented. Proceeding from the sterile stability of the bipolarism it has ensured continental peace for over half a century, towards some form of international, multilateral, behavioral constitutionalism, essentially liberal
POLITICA E AMMINISTRAZIONE IN UNA PROSPETTIVA DI EFFETTIVITÀ
No full textThe article is focused on the relationship between politics and public administration from an Italian perspective. The A. summarily analyses the institutional pattern and related institutional practices, starting from the enduring primacy of politics over administration, to the normative establishment in 1993 of a (formal) principle to distinguish politics and administration. Moreover, the article tries to look ahead at the necessary (substantive) equilibrium between politics and administration, which should be sought in order to remodel the public decision-making chain by making it oriented to administrative effectiveness
DOPO LA “FINE DELLA STORIA”. IL TEMA DELL’IDENTITÀ IN FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
No full textThe central themes of Francis Fukuyama’s latest books are the challanges that the liberal-democratic model he celebrated in The End of History and the Last Man (1992) has to face. The question of identity politics appears to be one of the most urgent issues and is one of the themes to which Fukuyama devotes the most attention, particularly in the works Identity (2018) and Liberalism and Its Discontents (2022). This focus shows a shift in a more realistic sense compared to the celebratory style used in The End of History. This realist note and the attention to the challenges posed to liberal democracies brings him closer, in terms of sensitivity, to his intellectual adversary and mentor Samuel P. Huntington. The Fukuyama of recent years therefore shows that he is coming to terms with his own work of the early years and with the legacy of his adversary-mentor Samuel Huntington
L’IDENTITÀ CASTRISTA A CUBA COME TELEOLOGIA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE
No full textIn Cuba the study of national identity, from a political-social point of view, has a long history that accompanied the process of formation of the national state, in some cases very similar to the experiences of the rest of the new continent, especially the Hispanic, in other cases profoundly different due to the geographical proximity and the strong political interest of the United States. The long process of Cuban independence, started with the War of 1898 and continued through the controversial relationship with the United States, finds its singularity in the Castroist revolution and its political and cultural link
LA CRISI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA LIBERALE: TECNO-SOVRANISMO E TECNO-POPULISMO IN PROSPETTIVA STORICA IN FRANCIA E IN ITALIA (1992-2022)
No full textThe concept of populism has played a central role in contemporary debate for several decades. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the transformation of liberal democracies - in historical perspective - in the experience of France and Italy, in light of the intertwining and hybridization of the concepts of populism, sovereignism, and technocracy
LA VIA ISTITUZIONALE ALLA PACE:DON LUIGI STURZO TEORICODELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI
No full textThe article aims to show the relevance and vitality of don Luigi Sturzo’s work as a theorist of international relations. In particular, the paper focuses on what could be described as the three institutional analyses of the question of war and peace discussed by Sturzo in his book The International Community and the Right of War (1929). Not only is it of great interest to examine the analysis contained in this text but, in the growing tensions between the United States, Russia, and China, some of the problems addressed by Sturzo are being raised again today and made even more dramatic by the war in Ukraine and in the Gaza Strip
ALLA RADICE DEL LIBERALISMO: DEVIAZIONI STORICHE E DIFFERENZE TRAIL SEME LIBERALE EUROPEO E IL LIBERALISMO AMERICANO
No full textThe paper analyzes, through the political approach, the historical and cultural perspectives of liberalism. What are the reasons that have led to such a clear distinction of the term liberalism in the European and contemporary world? We will see the seed of European liberalism and its “constructivist approach”, in which the fi rst defi nitions of liberalism are derived from the Nation-State of the modern era. Otherwise, in the American world, the refl ection has been less institutional and more visceral, linked to an “evolutionary” vision of society. During the 18th century, the fi rst major difference was established between the European Nation-States and the newborn USA: the liberalism of the former saw a top-down vision while the Americans a bottom-up vision
SUL TEMA DELLE IDENTITÀ COLLETTIVE NELLA TEORIA POLITICA TRA VECCHIO E NUOVO SECOLO
No full textThis paper focuses on the debate on multiculturalism and collective identities and rights at the turn of the century. The author attempts to assess the role and significance of the legacy of that debate on the methodology of political theory today. He shares Bikhu Parekh’s idea that Western political theorists should be careful in distinguishing self-proclaimed universalism from disguised ethnocentrism