{"title":"Governing Globalization. The Role of Europe for a Stable Monetary System and Sustainable Trade.","authors":"A. Mosconi","doi":"10.2478/tfd-2018-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/tfd-2018-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122675311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Federalism versus Nationalism: the Case of Catalonia","authors":"Domènec Ruiz Devesa","doi":"10.2478/tfd-2018-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/tfd-2018-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126983974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Carbon Tax for a Brighter Future","authors":"Alberto Majocchi, Antonio Padoa-Schioppa","doi":"10.2478/TFD-2018-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/TFD-2018-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Emmanuel Macron’s victory has opened unexpected prospects for the European Union. These were made plain by an impressive number of innovative proposals given in his speech at the Sorbonne University on September 27, 2018. Also the myth (because this is what it is, after all) of national sovereignty’s intangibility was specifically disproved: on the contrary, there is to win back at the European level a sovereignty that the European States, without exception, have by now lost at the national level.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126240116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Let’s Give Planetary Patriotism a Try","authors":"T. Daley","doi":"10.2478/TFD-2018-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/TFD-2018-0005","url":null,"abstract":"America first. Russia first. China first. The United States of America puts American interests first. Just as every other nation in the world puts its own interests first. President Donald Trump was right about that in his first speech before the United Nations, on Sept. 19. Few world leaders have so nakedly expressed the essence of the Westphalian state system, established by treaty in 1648, and under which every human being dwells today. “As President of the United States,”Trump said, “I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries, will always, and should always, put your countries first.”This is controversial? Every undergraduate learns this on the first day of International Relations. It is the first principle of the realpolitik practiced by Henry Kissinger, Winston Churchill and Otto von Bismarck. Virtually every other American President has made the same point. President Barack Obama, expressing his conception of larger interests during his final speech before the United Nations in 2016, returned in the end to his own primary obligation – and that of his counterparts. “Sometimes I’m criticized in my own country for professing a belief in international norms and multilateral institutions. But I am convinced that in the long run, giving up some freedom of action – not giving up our ability to protect ourselves or pursue our core interests, but binding ourselves to international rules over the long term – enhances our security. And I think that’s not just true for us.” Similarly, at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, President George H.W. Bush – who didn’t even agree to show up until the last minute – declared, “I’m the President of the United States. I’m not the President of the world. And while I’m here, I’m going to do what best serves the interests of the American people.” So what reason is there to believe that a couple of hundred sovereign nations pursuing their separate national interests will produce optimal outcomes for the whole of the human community? “The nation-state remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition,” Trump declared to the UN. But he did not make a case for why that might be so. We live in a world whose crises interconnect us more than ever before. The runaway climate change that may have just produced three “thousand-year storms” in the space of three weeks. Genocide. Terror. Pandemic. The digital economy. An everincreasing chasm of inequality, both within and among nations. An endless river of refugees generated by economic hopelessness – and global population totals that only go up. “Failed states” where national governments disintegrate and disappear. And most of all, succeeding generations not yet saved from the scourge of war.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124222907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Only Kant Can Save Us","authors":"N. Urbinati","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125585237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Need for Politics to Regulate the Technological Revolution","authors":"Roberto Palea","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127873838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Steps are Needed to Reduce Tensions in the Korean Triangle","authors":"René V. L. Wadlow","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0027","url":null,"abstract":"Harsh words and a feverish environment concerning the Korean Peninsula are such that there might be significant developments between the time this is written midSeptember and when Federalist Debate is published. However, we have to hope that reasonable efforts are made to reduce tensions and pave the way for a longer-range security system in Northeast Asia. We must do more than just watch events but try to see what type of opportunities exist for positive suggestions to governments or for “Track II” non-official, NGO-led discussions .","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"68 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134545547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oil, Wheat and Currencies","authors":"E. Flor","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2017-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2017-0026","url":null,"abstract":"A study carried out by Robert Triffin International (RTI, 2014) entitled Using the SDR as a Lever to Reform the International Monetary System, supplementing the Palais Royal Initiative presented at the G20 in 2011, has showed that the trend towards a multi-currency monetary system requires cooperation between the IMF and central banks. The first step in this trend came to fruition on October 1 last year with the inclusion of the renminbi in the SDR basket. The second step, consisting in extending SDR issuance not only for Official SDRs but also for Market SDRs – as happened with the ECU before the creation of the euro –, was first implemented with the World Bank’s SDR two billion (USD 2.8 billion) issuance programme on the Chinese market. This was made in agreement with the People’s Bank of China, and the first tranche, equal to SDR 500 million (USD 700 million), was issued in September 2016. Therefore, the World Bank’s SDR issuance provides a diversification opportunity for China’s and other countries’ savings and investment opportunities in renminbi.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134127012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The EU and the Defense of Democratic Values","authors":"L. Levi","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2017-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2017-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Jean-Claude Juncker opened his speech on the State of the Union on a note of optimism. “Wind is in our sails”, he said. After Brexit, the victory of pro-European parties in political elections in France and Germany and President Macron’s important speech at the Sorbonne on “the rebuilding of a sovereign, democratic and united Europe”, conditions seem to be ripe for resuming the march towards federal union. But there is no absolute certainty. If that way will not be followed, the EU’s disintegration, that is already underway, will lead to the end of the European integration experiment. The fundamental contradiction of our time lies in the gap between the economy, that has become global, and politics, that remains national. The wave of globalization produces a toxic combination of two negative elements: the retreat of the state and the growing power of global finance and multinational corporations. As a matter of fact, states have abdicated their responsibility to regulate globalization and allowed market forces to gain the upper hand over politics. They are like failed corporations put into receivership by the new world order dominated by non state actors. In other words, power has migrated from the organizations that ensure public goods to those primarily oriented towards profit and private interest. Margaret Thatcher’s prophecy of a deregulated society is fulfilled. But the result is not freedom, peace and prosperity. Unlike her expectations, the power vacuum produced by the retreat of the state generates the loneliness of the citizen and spreads fear. The fall of collective reference points paves the way to unbridled violence and arouses a sense of precariousness. The fading of state’s authority generates monsters like terrorism, xenophobia, racism and revives old nightmares like the atomic bomb.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131256486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}