Coronavirus: per una governance globale democratica e federale
Pensatori di tutto il mondo hanno firmato un documento chiedendo ai leader politici e alle istituzioni internazionali di rafforzare le Nazioni Unite, l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità e la debole struttura internazionale odierna, applicando a livello globale i principi del federalismo e della democrazia. È possibile aderire all’appello a questo link.
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L’attuale crisi legata al Coronavirus richiede una cooperazione globale e soluzioni che il sistema politico nazionale/internazionale odierno non è in grado di offrire. Sette miliardi di esseri umani vivono oggi in un mondo globalizzato dall’economia e dalla tecnologia ma diviso in 200 Stati nazionali che adottano separatamente misure con scarso coordinamento ed efficacia. La pandemia di Covid19 mostra che ognuno di loro dà priorità alla propria visione e ai propri interessi, e ciò causa danni inutili all’economia mondiale e alla società globale e costa migliaia di vite umane.
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Fernando Savater, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Susan George, Transnational Institute
Fernando Iglesias, Cátedra Spinelli – World Federalist Movement
Daniel Innerarity, University of the Basque Country European University Florence
Daniele Archibugi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, University of London
Fernando Dalla Chiesa, Universitá degli Studi di Milano
Luigi Ferrajoli, University of Rome
Michele Fiorillo, Scuola Normale Superiore CIVICO Europa
Lucio Levi, Universitá di Torino
Lorenzo Marsili, European Alternatives
Raffaele Marchetti, Libera Università Guido Carli (Luiss)
Guido Montani, University of Pavia
Nathalie Tocci, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
Abdullahi A AnNaim, Universidad Emory
Sabrina Ajmechet, University of Buenos Aires
Bertrand Badie, Science Po Paris
Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College
Garret Brown, University of Leeds
Andreas Bummel, Democracy Without Borders
Mary Burton, University of Cape Town
Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo, University of Rome
Richard Falk, Princeton University – Queen Mary University
Dena Freeman, London School of Economics and Political Science
Elver Hilal, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food
Gurutz Jáuregui, University of the Basque Country
Santiago Kovadloff, Academia Argentina de Letras
Tim Murithi, University of Cape Town
Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gabriel Palumbo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Erna Paris, Université La Sorbonne
Heikki Patomäki, University of Helsinki
Clara Riveros, CPLATAM Colombia
Luis Alberto Romero, Academia Argentina de Historia
Teivo Teivainen, University of Helsinki
Theo van Boven, Maastricht University
Loris Zanatta, Universitá di Bologna
(Versione italiana dall’inglese a cura di Michele Fiorillo)
CORONAVIRUS: FOR A GLOBAL DEMOCRATIC AND FEDERAL GOVERNANCE
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a global health and economic crisis that requires global solutions. However, the nationalinternational structure is unable to offer an adequate response to it.
Thought leaders around the world have signed this document demanding to political leaders and international institutions to strengthen the UN system, the World Health Organization and the international existing weak structure as well, applying the principles of federalism and democracy worldwide.
The current coronavirus crisis requires global cooperation and solutions which the existing national/international political system is incapable of delivering. Seven billion human beings are now living in a world globalized by the economy and technology but divided into almost 200 national states which adopt separate measures with scarce coordination and effectiveness. The Covid19 pandemic shows each of them prioritizing their own vision and interests, which causes unnecessary damage to the world economy and the global society, and costs thousands of human lives.
By definition, national states are unable to deal with global issues. Their failures don’t just affect their own citizens but have spillover effects on all the inhabitants of this small hyperconnected planet, damaging global commons. Global coordination and policies are urgently needed to defend the global ecosystem and world public health, and to protect the economy and employment all over the planet. Of course, national sovereignty must continue to be respected for national affairs, but effective global decision making is also necessary to protect the welfare and survival of humanity as a whole.
To effectively tackle pandemics such as Covid19, we need concrete binding action at the global level, such as early warning systems, information sharing, delivery and enforcement of norms, management of transmission across borders and vaccinetreatment research. Yet, while the World Health Organization (WHO) is mandated to deliver these functions at the global level, it lacks funds and enforcement mechanisms. Nowadays, 127 UN member states have still not fully complied with them due to a lack of financing and political will, the WHO can’t tackle countries that do not comply with the International Health Regulations and existing global disease control measures such as PEF, CEF and GHSA constitute a globally fragmented strategy, with disjointed funding, disintegrated policies and weak authority. The crisis shows that all the current health national/international system is unprepared to tackle global pandemics as Covid19, as well as world issues such as antimicrobial resistance and global warming related emergencies.
We the signatories of this document, some few of the seven billion world citizens, urgently ask national leaders and international institutions to take lessons from the Coronavirus crisis. Let’s work together to enable a better integrated 21st Century political system, reinforcing regional institutions, reforming the United Nations and making each level of governance more representative and effective; for example, through the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly able to deliver world health norms, the empowerment of an International Criminal Court capable of sanctioning eventual violations, and the building of a World Health Organization equipped to respond to global health challenges.
We the signatories don’t propose a world state or government. National states are needed to manage national problems, but an enhanced global governance system is needed to tackle global issues such as this pandemic. Otherwise, the panic generated by insufficient national responses to recurrent global crises will continue growing discontent and anger, eroding national democracies and strengthening nationalism and populism, with their simplistic “sovereigntist” responses to complex global affairs, and their threat to human survival.
Humanity has become a real community of fate. Hopefully, the coronavirus pandemic has taught us how small the Earth is and how close we are to each other. The time of applying the principles of federalism and democracy to the global scale has come. Shared sovereignty, coordination and cooperation at the global level or national populism. A more federal and democratic political structure able to regulate globalization or further crises and chaos. That’s the question we face.
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Fernando Savater, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Susan George, Transnational Institute
Fernando Iglesias, Cátedra Spinelli – World Federalist Movement
Daniel Innerarity, University of the Basque Country European University Florence
Daniele Archibugi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, University of London
Fernando Dalla Chiesa, Universitá degli Studi di Milano
Luigi Ferrajoli, University of Rome
Michele Fiorillo, Scuola Normale Superiore CIVICO Europa
Lucio Levi, Universitá di Torino
Lorenzo Marsili, European Alternatives
Raffaele Marchetti, Libera Università Guido Carli (Luiss)
Guido Montani, University of Pavia
Nat
halie Tocci, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
Abdullahi A AnNaim, Universidad Emory
Sabrina Ajmechet, University of Buenos Aires
Bertrand Badie, Science Po Paris
Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College
Garret Brown, University of Leeds
Andreas Bummel, Democracy Without Borders
Mary Burton, University of Cape Town
Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo, University of Rome
Richard Falk, Princeton University – Queen Mary University
Dena Freeman, London School of Economics and Political Science
Elver Hilal, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food
Gurutz Jáuregui, University of the Basque Country
Santiago Kovadloff, Academia Argentina de Letras
Tim Murithi, University of Cape Town
Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gabriel Palumbo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Erna Paris, Université La Sorbonne
Heikki Patomäki, University of Helsinki
Clara Riveros, CPLATAM Colombia
Luis Alberto Romero, Academia Argentina de Historia
Teivo Teivainen, University of Helsinki
Theo van Boven, Maastricht University
Loris Zanatta, Universitá di Bologna
You can join the call at this link:
https://globaldemocracy.wixsite.com/covid19
(26 maggio 2020)
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