UTOPIAN VISIONS, DYSTOPIC REALITIES (POLIDEMOS 7)

The disruptive effects of climate change and its consequences on our daily lives; the crisis of neoliberal economic theories, with their absolute trust in the market and its ability to create global peace and order; the decline of the Western model of international cooperation and the redefinition of international order; the mounting distrust of democratic institutions, strongly linked to the intensification of social fractures and electoral polarisation; and, last but not least, the almost unbelievable short- and long-term effects of the Covid-19 global pandemic. All the aforementioned phenomena represent just some of the main issues currently at stake.