Abstract:

It has become something of a truism to state that the world is currently undergoing a period of enormous change, the nature of which goes beyond the evolutionary development of the political, economic, and social models that have dominated the past 70 years. The linear model of further world development, nurtured by the specific optimism of the late 1980s and early 1990s, aimed at ever greater democratisation on the one hand and liberalization and globalisation on the other, is manifestly in deep crisis—or perhaps we can even speak of its complete collapse. Describing the causes of this state of affairs obviously exceeds the scope of this article; however, there is no doubt that one of the main symptoms of these transformations is deglobalisation processes. This term denotes, undoubtedly, a broad category of phenomena whose common aspect is the departure from certain solutions (economic, legal, and political alike) characteristic of globalisation processes, however also the emergence of processes that do not so much roll back some aspect of globalisation as constitute entirely new solutions—solutions that could not have arisen before globalisation however that are directed toward other goals and emerge within a different paradigm.