{"title":"World and European Federalist Movements: Building a Closer Cooperation to Achieve a Common Goal","authors":"P. Llorente","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"39 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":"116979742","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":"Helmut Kohl, a Giant of the Post-War Era","authors":"J. Juncker","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0025","url":null,"abstract":"Today we are saying goodbye to the German and European Statesman, Helmut Kohl. And I am saying goodbye to a true friend who guided me with affection over the years and the decades. I am not speaking now as President of the Commission, but as a friend who became President of the Commission. In Helmut Kohl, a giant of the post-war era leaves us; He made it into th ehistory books even while he was still alive – and in those history books he will forever remain. He was someone who became the continental monument before which German and European wreaths are laid, and indeed must be laid. It was his wish to say goodbye here in Strasbourg, this Franco-German, European border city that was close to his heart. This wish had to be granted. Today’s memorial service is not ‘not-German’, it is European, and thus it is also German. We begin this day in Strasbourg and conclude it this evening in Speyer, in Speyer cathedral, with which he had a life-long connection. Helmut Kohl was a German patriot. But he was also a European patriot. He was someone who brought together and reconciled things and people. A German and European Patriot, because for him there was no contradiction between that which is German, and the European, that has to be. The French philosopher Blaise Pascal said that he liked things that go together: J’aime les choses qui vont ensemble. For Helmut Kohl, German and European unity went together. Two sides of the same coin, as he, and Adenauer before him, always used to say. He made Adenauer’s maxim his own. And he put it into practice again and again through his thoughts and actions. There are many examples of this. The fall of the Berlin Wall was greeted with joy throughout Europe and the world. But German reunification – in which he always uncompromisingly believed – encountered resistance in parts of Europe, and indeed sometimes outright rejection. Helmut Kohl promoted German reunification in many patient conversations. He was able to do so successfully because his reputation, which had grown over many years, allowed him to give credible assurances that he was striving for a European Germany and not a German Europe. He wanted German reunification with all his might, and outside Germany he was able to convince others of the historically correct path. He was able to seize the mantle of God as it drifted through history for a brief moment. Not everyone in Germany and sadly not everyone in Europe sensed this movement of the mantle of God immediately. But he did. He sensed that German unity was within reach. He rightly judged and used the opportunity. Others would have failed in this epoch-making task. You could sense that this was a man of vision.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"1 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":"129134814","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 European Union of Security and Defence Is Taking Shape","authors":"Federica Mogherini","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"28 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":"124883011","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":"Sustainable Common Security","authors":"H. P. Langille","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2017-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2017-0017","url":null,"abstract":"To date, concepts of cooperative security – whether “collective security,” “comprehensive security,” “common security” or “human security” – have been helpful but insufficient. e emancipatory potential of each was evident early on, just not agreeable to the most powerful. As a result, our key systems and institutions did not shift as hoped. Within a few years it was back to national security, preparing for war and business as usual. Despite a rapidly globalizing world, transformational change continues to be resisted in all the state-centric institutions. This raises a fundamental question: how do we break from this pattern to do better?","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127697548","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":"Why is the Union in Urgent Need of a Political Core?","authors":"Dusan Sidjanski","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124258096","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":"Xi Jinping Steps up to Lead the World Economy","authors":"Stefano Rossi","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133300879","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":"Zygmunt Bauman’s Moral and Political Commitment","authors":"Marita Rampazi","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2017-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2017-0018","url":null,"abstract":"With the death of Zygmunt Bauman (19252017), contemporary culture loses a critical voice, which has been able to combine the analysis of the main dramas of our time with a constant civil and political tension towards a project of human emancipation. Bauman is an exemplary committed-intellectual figure, convinced that the role of social sciences is to provide human beings with the knowledge necessary to understand the situation in which they live in and be thus in the position to expand their freedom of action. The historical task of intellectual elites is to take sides, denouncing the often imperceptible ways in which domination mechanisms, generators of exclusion, inequalities, “wasted lives”(2004), operate. Consistently with this conviction, he has always tried to give voice to the victims, demonstrating that there is an alternative to the evils of the present and that this alternative can only be built in the public sphere, with political action. There is no doubt that Bauman was strongly influenced by having experienced himself totalitarianism in its most brutal forms – Nazism and Stalinism –, the mechanisms of exclusion brought by anti-Semitism, and the horrors of war. Born in Poznan, he left Poland with his family in 1939 to escape the anti-Semitic Pogroms, seeking shelter in Russia. At the age of 18, he joined the Communist Party and joined the Polish Volunteers Brigade of the Red Army, taking part in the battles of Kolobrzeg and Berlin. After the war, he returned to Warsaw, where he started university studies of sociology and where he remained as a lecturer until 1968. With his return to Poland, his criticism of the official Marxism-Leninism matures; he breaks away from it, and approaches, in the late 1950s, the anti-Stalinist and anti-dogmatic component of the Polish“ humanist Marxism”. His relationship with Marxism evolves further, thanks to his encounter with Gramsci’s thought. As noted by Bauman himself, in an interview with Madeleine Bunting on the Guardian (April 5, 2003), “I discovered Gramsci and he gave me the opportunity of an honorable discharge from Marxism. It was a way out of orthodox Marxism, but I never became anti-Marxist as most did. I learned a lot from Karl Marx and I’m grateful”. In 1968, a new wave of anti-Semitism in Poland led him to emigrate with his family to Israel. He teaches at the University of Tel Aviv until 1971, when he accepts a chair at the University of Leeds, where he settles permanently and where his post-Marxist evolution of the 1980s takes shape. It is no coincidence that the writings of that period are focused on the end of class society and the failure of real socialism in the realization of the project of human emancipation. Bauman begins to consider the evils of his time, not so much as the result of the capitalist system, but as a by-product of the search for order, certainty, predictability, that modern rationality induces men to pursue, transforming the state into a powerful tool of social en","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"374 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124680504","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":"Welfare for the European Union in the Age of Globalization","authors":"Alfonso. Iozzo","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0003","url":null,"abstract":"At the same time as Nazi-fascist armies ranged across Europe, some activists and scholars – contemplating the future of Europe after the war – focused their thoughts and actions on two objectives: – building a system that would prevent countries from resorting to destructive conflicts and war; – establishing the conditions to ensure that all citizens could benefit from more human living conditions and essential goods. In London, William Beveridge founded the Federal Union Research Institute to promote European unity, dedicated his first book to peace, and prepared his “plan” to introduce the national health service. At Ventotene, Ernesto Rossi, together with Altiero Spinelli and Eugenio Colorni, wrote For a Free and United Europe. A Draft Manifesto and then gave substance to his social ideas with the book Abolishing Misery, in which he mentioned having heard about the “Beveridge Plan”. In his autobiography, Altiero Spinelli wrote that much of the inspiration for the Manifesto came from reading","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127510933","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 Call from COP22 at Marrakech: There Is No Time to Waste!","authors":"Roberto Palea","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2017-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2017-0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128714150","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}