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CADMUS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED Inside This Issue The real importance of understanding German reunification lies in its relevance to the future rather CADMUS than its historical significance. Dora Damjanović, PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT Reunification of Germany & Global Social Evolution THAT LEADS TO ACTION NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES Reforming and expanding the UN is a necessary condition for the future of democratic states, international agreements and the subsidiarity allowing autonomous, equitable decision-making at regional and local levels. Hazel Henderson, Volume 3, Issue 5 October 2018 ISSN 2038-5242 Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age A viable and enduring leadership can be built only Inside This Issue upon the basis of truth, or at least rationality. States can no longer survive on the basis of organized ARTICLES falsehood. The Future of Democracy Ashok Natarajan, Challenged in the Digital Age — H. Henderson The Leadership the World Needs System Change Investing and Political Reform — F. Dixon No matter how ambitious its theoretical pretensions are, no social model can artificially abstract human The Significant Individual, — J. Ramanathan & beings from their historical context. Values and Social Evolution G. Jacobs Carlos Blanco-Pérez, The Reunification of Germany On the Principles of a Social Theory & Global Social Evolution — D. Damjanović The lingering undertow of the debt crisis, in which ‘Unity in Diversity’ as a many still feel caught up, and its handling are not Measured Response to only producing a diminution of the middle class, Resurgent Nationalism — T. Reuter they are also showcasing internal contradictions in Leadership the World Needs — A. Natarajan both theoretical as well as policy terms, regarding Principles of a Social Theory — C. Blanco-Pérez the social aspects of the crisis and the economic policies and models behind them. Global Governance, Human — W. P. Nagan & Dimitrios Kyriakou, Needs, and Values B. M. DiCaprio Fighting the Debt Crisis’ Undertow Techno-science and Ethics — João Caraça Primary goals of political reform should be to Fighting the Debt Crisis’ Undertow — D. Kyriakou establish true democracy and use the public wealth to equally and fairly benefit all citizens. Urgent Need for the As plutocracy is replaced with democracy, the Establishment of IIST in SEE — I. Šlaus people’s elected representatives will end the SEED-IDEA: Scientific current massive, unfair public wealth redistribution Reversal in the Offing? — R. van Harten to the top of society. Research on Europeanization — G. Bandov & Frank Dixon, in Literature N. H. Kolman System Change Investing and Political Reform International Competitiveness Continued… and its threat to Democracy — J. Bunzl Taming the Wicked: Book €10 Review of the SIMPOL Solution — J. Surwillo EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman: Ivo Š laus, Honorary President, World Academy of Art & Science; Member, Club of Rome, European Leadership Network and Pugwash Council. Martin Luther King’s actions testify to the fact that one man's commitment Editor-in-Chief: Orio Giarini, Director, The Risk Institute, Geneva and Trieste; Fellow, World Academy of can change the world. But it equally reveals the power of a mass movement Art & Science; Honorary Member, Club of Rome. directed to advance social progress. This accomplishment continues to Managing Editor: Garry Jacobs, Chief Executive Officer, World Academy of Art & Science and World inspire activists all over the world and confirms the inevitability of the success University Consortium; Member, Club of Rome; Vice-President, The Mother’s Service Society, India. of movements that strive for universal human rights. It also illustrates the Members: process and defines the strategy needed for the future evolution of global Zbigniew Bochniarz, Professor, Kozminski University, Warsaw, University of Washington and Harvard society and human unity. Business School, USA; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science. Janani Ramanathan & Garry Jacobs, Erich Hoedl, Vice-President, European Academy of Sciences & Arts; Former Rector, Wuppertal The Significant Individual, Values & Social Evolution University and Graz University of Technology; Member, Austrian Chapter of Club of Rome; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science. Scientific leadership must be more articulate in the defense of values that sustain a creative, dynamic, and responsible scientific economic and political Michael Marien, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, Global Foresight Books; Senior Principal, Security & Sustainability Guide. culture as an indispensable foundation for an improved world order based on Winston P. Nagan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chair of Program Committee, World Academy of human rights and human dignity. Art & Science; Editor of Eruditio Journal; Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Florida, USA. Winston P. Nagan & Brittany M. DiCaprio, Ashok Natarajan, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Secretary & Senior Research Fellow, The Global Governance, Human Needs and Values Mother’s Service Society, India. The solution is to aspire for unity in diversity. This is not a contradiction in Thomas Reuter, Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Senior Vice-President, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. terms. Indeed, unity without diversity is meaningless, because a unity based on sameness has no communicative and rational potential. Alberto Zucconi, Secretary General, World University Consortium; Treasurer & Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; President, Person-Centered Approach Institute, Italy. Thomas Reuter, Editorial & Technical Staff: Vasugi Balaji, Latha Chandrasekaran, Janani Ramanathan, Ranjani Ravi, ‘Unity in Diversity’ as a Measured Response to Resurgent Nationalism Subiksha Senthil, Vani Senthil and Ranganayaki Somaskandan. Restoring our faith in democracy as well as solving the global problems that confront us now require a global level of political action. The CADMUS Journal John Bunzl, The acronym of the South-East European Division of The World Academy of Art & Science— International Competitiveness and its threat to Democracy and the Planet SEED—prompted us to initiate a journal devoted to seed ideas—to leadership in thought that leads to action. Cadmus (or Kadmos in Greek and Phoenician mythology) was a son of King There would be no Europeanization without European integration. Agenor and Queen Telephassa of Tyre, and brother of Cilix, Phoenix and Europa. Cadmus is Goran Bandov & Nikolina Herceg Kolman, credited with introducing the original alphabet—the Phoenician alphabet, with “the invention” Research on Europeanization in Literature of agriculture, and with founding the city of Thebes. His marriage to Harmonia represents the symbolic coupling of Eastern learning and Western love of beauty. The youngest son of No society will ever have a future by rejecting the kind of science that allows Cadmus and Harmonia was Illyrius. The city of Zagreb, which is the formal seat of SEED, was us to be reconciled with the universe. once part of Illyria, a region in what is today referred to as the Western Balkans. Cadmus will João Caraça, Techno-science and Ethics be a journal for fresh thinking and new perspectives that integrates knowledge from all fields of science, arts and humanities to address real-life issues, inform policy and decision-making, and Our analysis clearly demonstrates the imperative to establish a center of enhance our collective response to the challenges and opportunities facing the world today. excellence, actually at least two centers, in SEE. Ivo Šlaus, Copyrighted to & Published under Open Access policy guidelines by The Mother's Service Society, Urgent Need for the Establishment of IIST in South-East Europe 16192, Coastal Highway, Lewes, DE 19958, USA Nomads didn’t want to learn to plant, warriors didn’t want monotheism, and Visit http://cadmusjournal.org/content/editorial-policy for Editorial Policy. the traditionalists didn’t want rationality. There are always very good reasons Websites: www.cadmusjournal.org – www.worldacademy.org – www.newwelfare.org to remain at lower stages based on the rational presuppositions of the former E-mail: [email protected] world. James Surwillo, Book Review: “Taming the Wicked” Editorial Office: 5, Puduvai Sivam Street, Venkata Nagar, Pondicherry 605011, India Printed by: Akaram, Plot No.1, Nirmala Nagar, Thanjavur, India PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT THAT LEADS TO ACTION THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED CADMUS NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES Volume 3, Issue 5 October 2018 1 CADMUS VISION The world is in need of guiding ideas, a vision, to more effectively direct our intellectual, moral and scientific capabilities for world peace, global security, human dignity and social justice. Today we face myriad challenges. Unprecedented material and technological achievements co-exist with unconscionable and in some cases increasing poverty, inequality and injustice. Advances in science have unleashed remarkable powers, yet these very powers as presently wielded threaten to undermine the very future of our planet. Rapidly rising expectations have increased frustrations and tensions that threaten the fabric of global society. Prosperity itself has become a source of instability and destruction when wantonly pursued without organizational safeguards for our collective well-being. No longer able to