Cover image: The future of the Mediterranean and the UN reform: two global challenges
In diplomacy as in politics, in business as in finance, we often speak of the reform of the UN and the many, too many and now constantly unresolved and almost infinite, crises in the Mediterranean. It still seems utopian to succeed, thinking the unthinkable, to overcome the antinomies and the secular and tribal hatreds that divide what History, logic and global evolution would like to unite.
Leonardo Dini’s point of view
The two themes are rarely or rarely spoken simultaneously and compared. Yet, in theory as in practice, it is the lesson of History: there is no stable world equilibrium without the Mediterranean in peace; and there is no Mediterranean stability that may abstract from the UN and its intervention.
Unfortunately, however, the positive and peaceful policies of FAO are often contradicted by the military interventions concerted by the major powers present in the UN (Security Council) and the third way, peaceful peace-keeping, still appears insufficient, exploited, ineffective, particularly in the protection of archaeological and artistic heritage but also of human lives and migrants.
In fact, if there are virtuous examples in Lebanon and in some humanitarian crises, there are also the bad legacies of Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Libya, where the institutions born from the Treaty of Versailles and the San Francisco Charter show all their, so to speak, ontological limits.
How many centuries will it take to see a UN that is truly the government of the world and of the world crises, a democratic government and not the board of the CEOs of super powers?
The United Nations reform, piled up, messed up, perpetually postponed, appears as an impossible mission as the harmony between the superpowers or between the north and the south of the world.
Yet I wonder where and how experience is taken into account when planning UN reforms.
Yet, they may borrow from the European Union and the African and Commonwealth Union, the Asean and Eurasian Union. Not to forget the historic alliance of the Third World countries that called themselves “Non-Aligned”, or the parallel experiences of building a world community made by the international scientific community and also by the worlds of literary culture and international musicians.
So, if there is a worldwide mainstream for mathematics, music, scientific and university research, if the International Olympic Committee itself is a sort of sports UN, born in 1894, and which has even inspired the birth of the UN itself, then why does it appear so much cumbersome, uncertain, impossible to make the UN Assembly a world Parliament?
And why should the Security Council not become a world government with competence on specific matters that individual states cannot resolve, provided that it is made up of, say, 5 members, one per continent, a rotating expression of all nations?
And how comes that FAO, UNHCR, UNESCO, etc. should not be the operational arms, like world “ministries”, which act on a regional level on mandate from the “world parliament” and coordination of the “government”, in the respective fields of intervention (agriculture and food quality, flows of migrants and refugees, cultural protection), also helping the states that need it to structure themselves institutionally to govern their problems?
On the other side of the problem, the Mediterranean, the sum of many contradictions and paradoxes of History, in the face of its future and the future of world history, turns out to be, as in the remote Mesopotamian and Egyptian past, the cradle of a tomorrow of peace and balanced development for the world if it overcome the “pars destruens” (its destructive part) constituted by hatred between peoples, fundamentalism and cross struggles between religions and xenophobias.
We believe in the Euro-Mediterranean project and in a future global aggregation. We consider possible a Euro-Mediterranean country intended as a Europe extended to the Middle East and the north coast of Africa and in function of a shared civilization and without caliphates and neo-medieval crusades.
The role of the Eastern powers, and particularly China (the “Middle Kingdom” as it was once called) and Korea (when it will be united), as well as Russia, will not be indifferent and may, indeed, determine the famous flapping wings of a butterfly that creates earthquakes on the other side of the world.
That is, the new Asian and African center of gravity of the world will not fail to have repercussions on the UN reforms, just as everything will always be a mirror of a world perhaps freed from the moloch of world wars, but not from threats to species induced by nature: pandemics, meteorites, volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes: we are always on a spur of rock in a universe ocean and not on an unchanging place.
The UN and the Mediterranean ultimately reveal two aspects of the same problem, the construction and evolution of a world that is not only formally better for all humans.
Among the Mediterranean reunification projects, the most rational and reasonable is that of MEDCOM which was launched on the pages of this journal (click on the blue links to read Insight360 “If a Mediterranean Community came back to life“, where in the index at the bottom there is the 2015 article which analyzes the problem in detail and first launches the challenge, as well as the 2017 article which describes the ways to achieve it and the reasons why all this can be successful.
MEDCOM is a project that simply but brilliantly proposes a unifying synergy and coordination of the many Mediterranean organizations and coordination projects that already operate in the dozens of fields that cover all the interests common to all their member states, that is, the whole of bodies that in fact already daily manage the difficult but not utopian task, as they demonstrate with their own existence, to make the Mediterranean be the “Mare omnium populorum“, the sea of all peoples.
Leonardo Dini
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With this article Dr. Leonardo Dini begins his collaboration with PLANET360.info. We are sure that his remarkable experience in strategic analysis and of the various political aspects, both nationally and internationally, as well as his preparation in the philosophical field, will contribute to offer an interesting point of view for those who are looking for useful elements on our pages. to form their own opinion.
The editorial staff
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Leonardo Dini was born in Rome in 1966, the eldest child of a historic family of Florentine and Parisian origins who has repeatedly made his mark in history, as with Lamberto Dini (Italian president of the council of ministers and minister of foreign affairs and treasury, economist of the IMF and general manager of the Bank of Italy), as well as maternal heir of the French dynasty of Cardinal de Fleury, prime minister for 18 years in France in the 1700s.
After graduating in Law with a thesis in Political Theory and Philosophy of Law, in 1989 he became a philosopher of law and a political theorist and since 1993 a scholar and philosopher of science and epistemologist. He is a member of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) and of the Italian Society of Philosophy of Law (SFI).
Since 1988 he has dedicated himself to foreign policy, since 2008 he has collaborated with the Foreign Department of the Democratic Party being involved in the political field as LibLab supporter and ecologist, then centrist in the Liberal Pd and now with Italia Insieme, of which he is President. He was also president of the PD’s Centro Storico section in Rome and manager of Anpi Roma centro.
Since 1984 he has written novels, poems and essays on philosophy, publishing three of the latter with Aracne publisher: “Idea Donna”, “Idea Cinema” and “Immagine e Logos”. He also writes essays on cinema as a philosopher for Cineclub Diaries. It organizes numerous seminars and workshops on international policy issues.
