CfP vol. 6 (2026), no. 2 "The transformations of globalization: power, geopolitics and law"

2026-01-05

The election of the 47th president of the United States triggered not only a change within the global order as we know it, but also laid the foundations for the creation of a new one. The exit of the United States from the WHO, the sanctions against the International Criminal Court, the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the decision of the American president to terminate the agreement reached by the OECD in 2021 on the global taxation of multinationals, the recent legislative proposals to protect the US enterprises from any application of due diligence regulations, the end of the U.S. Foreign Aid Agency system: all these indicate a clear orientation that expresses a growing conflict between power and law.

The effects of this new American policy reverberate in several directions: against the supranational legal order that had been created after the Second World War; towards the revision of the traditional system of US alliances; towards the overcoming of the principles of liberal democracy; towards the decline of the West and the emergence of the power of the Global South; towards the international protection of human rights.

Hence, a question arises: what has the West become, or what is becoming?

 

Aims and Scope of the Call for Papers:

This call for papers aims to investigate the transformation that globalization and the global order are facing from different perspectives. We aim to answer (although not exclusively) the following questions:

  1. Geopolitical scenarios and the transformation of the global legal order: what interaction?
  2. The role of international and regional institutions in directing this transformation;
  3. The transformation of global politics in the light of the exercise of unilateral powers;
  4. The impact of power on the global and regional economies;
  5. The role of civil society in the transformation of global politics;
  6. Law, geopolitics and new technologies: how do these tools influence global transformation?
  7. Power, geopolitics and protection of fundamental rights, especially in the field of business and human rights.

 

Information for authors:

The call is open to all scholars who want to contribute, coming from political, legal, historical, philosophical, international, anthropological, social and economic disciplines.

Interested authors can send a 700-word abstract on a topic related to the call for papers by 28 February 2026, by writing to athena@unibo.it (and in cc gustavo.gozzi@unibo.it and luigi.sammartino2@unibo.it).

Selected proposals will be communicated by 7 March 2026.

Final papers must be submitted to the Review by using this link no later than 30 June 2026.

The final issue will be published in November-December 2026.

 

For any other information, please contact the Journal Manager, Luigi Sammartino (luigi.sammartino2@unibo.it).