THE IMPLOSION OF CONFIDENCE - THE OPENING OF FRONTIERS TOWARDS POPULISM AND NATIONALISM
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Authors:
• Radu GHEORGHE, email: radu.gheorghe@univath.ro, Afiliation: Athenaeum University of BucharestPages:
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Keywords: barometer, business, corruption, globalization, immigration,
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Abstract:
„We entered a chaotic period of transformation of the system of the world which we belong. The result is unpredictable”, specify Immanuel Wallerstein in the „The decline of American power - United States in a world of chaos”, published in 2003, which has appeared in Romania in 2005, at Incitatus Éditions. Renowned historian and sociologist warned more than a decade ago that „after five hundred years of existence, the world capitalist system stands for the first time in a real systemic crisis” and the society seen from a global perspective, lies „in an age of transition”. Transition whose final station is unsafe. In the sense that „all these for the first time in five hundred years”, even if „there is a real prospect for fundamental change, which could be progressive”, there's no „must be”. In a somewhat related note, David Korten emphasize in 2007 the following: „In 1995, I noticed in the prologue of the book ”When corporations lead the world”, everywhere I went, finding among the common people, an almost universal opinion, that institutions which they depended were untrustworthy”. Even though Wallerstein hypothesis may be questionable yet (according to Professor as a result of the current crisis the capitalist structural system will cease to exist) or Korten fears can still be interpreted in a subjective exaggerations key (Korten sees a possible incapacity of institutes to provide in the future specific means for solving social conflict), last data confidence
