Africa-Press – Angola. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights approved by the UN General Assembly, on December 10, 1948, assumed the guarantee of an end to the broken relative superiority of the cultural systems of ethnicities and beliefs, and, relevantly, of the removal of the myths of “ Negro”, from “Mestizo”, from “Jew”, and finally from “Aryan”.
It is said that Jacques Maritain, when asked whether the actors responsible for the vote had reached an agreement, replied “yes, but he did not know about what”. The anarchy in which the planet finds itself, after the weakening of the UN International Court of Justice, the law of the sea and its resources, diplomatic relations, the suspension of claims that affect America, the exploration of space, which remains in the registers, were being affected, to a greater or lesser extent, but were rather aggravating. our hope during the century without a compass, that UNESCO, established in 1945, soon proclaimed that “the serious guarantee that has now ended has been rendered liable to the denial of the democratic ideal, of the dignity of equality, and of respect for the human person and the will of everything replace,exploiting ignorance and prejudice, and the dogma of inequality of races and men”.
The facts that multiply each day make more evident the lack of inspiring voices of a structure of cooperation and peace, a Roman legal heritage, restoring constitutional legitimacy, the Christian contribution that the creation of the European Union did not include but were proclamations with responses achieved, although making it difficult to maintain an ethical normativism that constitutionally accompanies the progress of science and technology, measures in the plan to renew a just life among all ethnic groups that equally aim at free and cooperative thinkers.
The disorder, which grows with the situation of “war” with covid-19, was recently evaluated by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge with the publication with Portuguese translation with the title The Fourth Revolution, the Global Race to Reinvent the State (Dom Quixote). One of the notable interventions of the late illustrious Hans Küng, he did not fail to investigate and publish his conclusions on this disturbing evolution. national laws, without worrying too much about “ethical feelings”.
The person in charge who points out that theory is Henry Kissinger, a statesman remembered today, and who for years carried out this Realpolitik, of which he proved to be an eloquent defender in his book Diplomacy. In fact, President Nixon’s former secretary of state admires some American politicians such as Jefferson and Franklin, who sought a certain balance between God and interests, less than European politicians who were not afraid of resorting to force, such as Richelieu, Metternich and Bismarck. Kissinger notes, not without irony, that no nation except the United States has ever founded its international claim and leadership on its own altruism. He cannot continue in the situation in which Maritain confessed when asked about the positive vote on the Universal Declaration of Rights, but which he did not understand and which had been voted on.
The horizon on which we enter the new year does not seem to support the fascinating portrayal of Friedman’s thought, such a respected leader of his time, thinking he has achieved what has been called “a crystal ball that predicts the future”. well-known are the competitions between the new great powers that renew their respective programs secondary to the words of those responsible for the divine indoctrination that guided, albeit with some errors, what was called the westernization of the world. , that the various countries that changed their independence history correcting it by the Union. The most distressing of the promised unity of the “Land common home of men” violated by the increasingly serious fact of men fleeing the land where they were born to live in search of a new destiny in which they lose their lives.
In Bertrand Badie’s conclusion, globalization is in a state of bankruptcy, all the more so as it lives in its current action of perfect novelty. That’s why the French five-year project followed the end of bipolarity in its main orientation, which consisted of using the French presence as multilateralism to try to control globalization… It could not oppose the expressions coming from the new world. Which means all the world.
Adriano Moreira |*
* Minister of Overseas, during the Estado Novo, university professor of Political Science and International Relations. Text from Diário de Notícias.
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