Open AccessDisordine internazionale e identità nazionale. Storia e favola = International disorder and national identity. History and fable
Author(s) -
Massimo La Torre
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
universitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1698-7950
DOI - 10.20318/universitas.2019.4838
Subject(s) - principle of legality , globalization , political science , national identity , international law , mythology , narrative , international relations , identity (music) , conversation , law , political economy , sociology , history , politics , philosophy , aesthetics , communication , classics , linguistics
After World War Two a gigantic effort was made in order to build a viable and stable international order, beginning with the Bretton Woods agreement that was aimed to stabilize the international monetary system, and with the United Nations, that were intended to restore legality in interstate affairs and somehow initiate a cosmopolitan conversation among Nation States. This order is now slowly crumbling down, paradoxically through globalization, and a triumphant neoliberalism. A new, but indeed quite old narrative, rather a myth, of what a national identity means is again getting the upper hand.KEYWORDS: international relations, international law, European Union, globalization, national identity