Bulletin n. 2/2016
December 2016
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Molinaro Enrico
    Geopolitical trends: Statalist BRICS challenge Glocalist financial instability
    in Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali , Volume 83, n. 1, gennaio-marzo ,  2016 ,  49-68
    The Author suggests an innovative scientific methodology for an effective prediction of geopolitical trends, with special reference to the political-economic BRICS organization. The assumption that economic and political élites use sophisticated tools of mass manipulation to influence people’ minds and the interpretation of geopolitical events is crucial to any correct analysis. Two élites in competition with each other apply their respective opposite and complementary Statalist and Glocalist model of collective identity to affect international dynamics, alternating cyclical success throughout history. Statalists propose the idea of State boundaries as limits of collective identity, while Glocalists suggest alternative trans-boundary or intra-boundary identity models. Five case-studies (Israel, Italy, Russia, United States and BRICS organization) show the current gradual progress of the Statalist élite. In this perspective, the undeniable social, political and economic troubles and setbacks of some of the BRICS countries are not interrupting the advancing success of the Statalist model of collective identity, common to the five BRICS governments. The study of the two powerful Statalist and Glocalist modern élites entails the use of a multidisciplinary approach necessarily complex. The main bibliographic sources are media articles, previous publications by the article’s Author, official documents published on this subject, international scientific literature. The Author’s innovative methodology, applicable to a potentially unlimited number or additional case-studies, shows the current success of the Statalist trend, which can affect positively also the recently troubled five BRICS’ governments, regardless of their project’s final fate.
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