Ri-progettare il mondo nell'epoca delle crisi

At the time of de-globalisation, the idea of a shared international project leaves more and more place to the interests of elites and nations. Established balances collapse, political authoritarianism strengthens, the path of rearmament and economic struggle take the place of dialogue and cooperation. Frontiers close, become impermeable, to the benefit of a nationalist perspective that promotes mechanisms to repatriate migrants. The dream of a supranational alliance for the resolution of global problems disappears. Where has the common project of society gone? Where to begin to re-design a collective trajectory?

The construction of a new equilibrium, in which power is distributed and not relegated to the interests of individual economic and state powers, seems, as of today, the only way to build a system based on what Stefano Rodotà has called “constitutionalism of needs”, i.e. a system in favour of a society in which “the right to have rights” becomes a common reality.

In this perspective, refocusing the principles of local constitutions or inter-state bodies - such as the UN Charter - could be a start. But how do the international powers with imperialist and economic lusts deal with these assumptions? How does Europe cry rearmament? How does the Italy of the migrant fight and the externalisation of frontiers, in which those who escape their homeland find themselves further and further excluded?

Italy is today called upon to take a position regarding its role in relation to major global issues and problems. However, the current trajectory of national policies is leading to a progressive weakening of the rule of law, to the detriment especially of those minorities already excluded or marginalised. 2024 was the year in which a crucial game was played in the area of migration policies. In contrast to its past as a great country of emigration, the questioning of the fundamental rights of people of foreign origin (be it through the obstruction of migration or the denial of the right to citizenship) only further reinforces that now globally widespread process of closure. How can we imagine a way out that puts the values of freedom and equal social opportunity at the first place?