Michele Blanco
Ricercatore indipendente (micheleblanco26@yahoo.it; ORCID: 0009-0003-5162- 8551).
Abstract: The constant and continuous affirmation of the absolutely free movement of capital, with economically powerful multinational companies and large economic unions between nation states, is interpreted as signs of a globalization that has surpassed the classic form of the nation state to move towards a global governance without borders and without conflicts. This idea has gained ground, thanks in part to strong propaganda in the mass media, making grand promises of economic prosperity for all, of freedom and democracy, with the simultaneous realization of the free movement of capital, the large-scale deregulation of national economies, economically powerful multinational corporations, and large economic unions between nation states. A world that would happily share Western values, considered “morally superior,” of democracy and the free market, of interdependence and cooperation, at the expense of old ideologies and useless divisions. But today, this phase of globalization appears to be in decline, with the 2008 financial crisis, the intensifying competition between the United States and China, the pandemic, and wars, which constitute, in fact, stages in the profound transformation of the international political and economic structure. Large state-level powers are returning to the word scene mondiale with the desire to be geopolitical protagonists, and the probably return of all the characteristic baggage of divisions and spheres of influence, alliances and hostility.
Keywords: Democracy; Neoliberalism; Social Equity; Post-globalization; National State.