Editorial
Cosmopolitics has not ceased to evolve from its ancient foundations. Giuseppe Giliberti looks back at Seneca’s Cynic-Stoic philosophy at the beginning of the present era, and emphasizes the ideological nature of the legal principles that, in Roman times, established a dichotomy between freedom and slavery in terms of individual rights. This contradicted the ius naturale and was incompatible with the imperatives of a cosmopolitan empire that extended over a large part of the known world.
Haider A. Khan asks what an appropriate cosmopolitan Global Financial Architecture might be for the Glob al South, considering that it should be a fair global financial arrangement. He explores the possibilities of a new global financial architecture adapted to the developments of new institutions among competing ideas, standards and policies.
Elly Hermon approaches the peace-war theme from the perspective of a multi-dimensional and globalised study that affects the international and intercultural order at a time when human history is moving towards a planetary civilisation for the first time. It pays particular attention to the historical dimension, between historiography and the philosophy of history.
Although Nigeria is the most populous country and the largest economy in Africa, François Misser explains that it has the highest crime rate on the continent, while developing new forms of crime, from cybercrime to jihadist terrorism, from human trafficking to maritime piracy. Conflicts between rival gangs only exacerbate the situation.
Raffaele Morgantini traces the process that led to the adoption by the UN of the first legal framework for the rights of peasants, on which food sovereignty in international law depends. He outlines its fundamental content and explores the main issues involved in its implementation.
Jérôme Bondu explores the techniques and vectors of cognitive warfare, which is nothing new, but where digitised techniques are renewing the psychological, informational, network and geopolitical drivers. What is at stake requires new forms of international collaboration to control its real or potential effects.
Ndubuisi Idejiora-Kalu analyses the problems posed in engineering by systems science and the growing complexity of quantified and interconnected data, most of which is invisible, highly unpredictable and overturns classical mathematical logic. As the nature of this data often appears metaphysical due to its instability and uncertainty, the author advocates a transdisciplinary methodology to address current problems.
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In the « Variations » section, Mariana Thiériot Loisel sets out her conception of the transdisciplinary method, which has the virtue of balancing science and consciousness, life and meaning, ecology and economics, technology and wisdom, education and democracy. For this reason, it must be collaborative and promote the most positive collective values.
Nicole Morgan returns to Thomas More’s writings, which she reminds us hide behind an honourable façade a rhetorical and philosophical humour that mocks the preachers of truth, where he places himself, in a final wink.……………
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In the ‘Debates’ section, Pierre Calame underlines the relevance of the European project, in the absence of any foreseeable construction of global governance or a federal state. Intergovernmental and civil society organisations can see in the EU, previously unimaginable, the forerunner of enlarged governance.
Finally, readers will find the proceedings of the first General Assembly, a virtual meeting held in Dakar on 9 April 2024, of the recently created association I-Dialogos. Chaired by Abdoulaye Sene, the meeting brought together nearly 60 participants from 37 countries on different continents.
Paul Ghils