CENTRAL EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 2019 Summer Quarterly of Central European Political Science Alliance Volume: 20 Number: 76 THE TURBULENT GLOBAL CONVERGENCE GAME WCSA Special Issue Guest Editors Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama Institute of Tax Law and Economics, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Emilia Ferone G. d’Annunzio University, Italy Giovana Camila Portolese Special Secretariat of the Federal Revenue, Brazil Content Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama, Emilia Ferone and Giovana Camila Portolese: Prologue 13 Andrea Pitasi and Emilia Ferone: Turbulent Convergence: A WCSA Presidential Systemic Agenda Setting for World Order Lawmaking and Policy Modelling 17 Sara Petroccia and Tyler Adams: Civilization and Globalization 41 Farooq A Kperogi, Tyler Adams, and Andrea Pitasi: Digitalizagtion: The Internet of Things in the Turbulent Convergence of Our Times 63 Olimpia Affuso and Antonella Coco: Big Data: A Challenge for Social Sciences. Criticisms for Social Knowledge and Politics 93 Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama: Processing Personal and Business Data and the Rule of Law in the Era of Digital Trade 111 Mariavittoria Catanzariti: Data Sharing Beyond the Public/Private Divide 129 Giovana Camila Portolese: The Hypercitizenship Systemic Vision: Aligning Digitalization, Intangibles and Taxation 169 Dalton Dallazem and Natália Brasil Dib: Is South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. Case Relevant to the Digital Economy Taxation? 191 Marcio Henrique Sales Parada: Brazilian Tax System, Tax Reform and Taxation of the Digital Economy 213 Lorenzo Termine and Francesco Lomonaco: Short-Term Advantages vs. Long-Term Uncertainty in Italy-China Cooperation 239 REPORTS AND CONFERENCES 9th WCSA WORLWIDE Conference - Ischia, Italy March 23rd - March 25th, 2020 275 Xenophobia – Call for Tolerance in the EU - Conference in Oradea – Romania June 6-8, 2019 285 BOOK REVIEWS László Vizi: Trianon 100 Years after - by János Simon 287 ABSTRACTS 293 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 301 Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama, Emilia Ferone and Giovana Camila Portolese Prologue It was a great honor and pleasure of ours to serve as Guest Editors for this special issue of the Central European Political Science Review (CEPSR) emerged from the cooperation agreement between the Review and the World Complexity Science Academy (www.wcsaglobal.org) and aimed at developing a viable toolkit for global governance and policy modelling. In an age of global impact phenomena the clear para- dox is that globalization increases despite local voices that, in its turn, have to become global to be heard. Therefore, there is no scape from globalization, for the better and worse. The challenges and opportunities of globalization can be understood as long and far as the toolkit is suitable. Obsolete common sense beliefs are not able to demonstrate whether globalization is wrong or failing; they merely show the inappropriate observation skills of the observer. Beyond any moral judgment, the present special issue provides some key interdisciplinary pillars of the complex systemic process. By considering epistemological, theo- retical, methodological, technical, and applied operations (empirical is a tricky word which creates the illusion the observer can capture the reality as it is through the data) this issue offers a systemic vision to understand the world around us and enhance policy modelling. As a matter of fact, the link between research and policy is decisive as stated by WCSA motto: Research determines policy, policy determines politics, systematically. Notwithstanding, it is also worthwhile to draw a distinction between descriptive research and normative policy guidelines. The conflation 13 of description and prescription has a negative impact in the reputation of science, law, and politics. The present special issue explores concepts and provides hints at different levels from epistemology to applied operations. Rather than describing these features chapter-by-chapter, a Mertonian systematization of contents will be presented in a nutshell. Such wider approach is possible since a broader and deepest overview of the systemic vision is underpinning the entire issue from its inaugural chapter titled Turbulent Convergence: A WCSA Presidential Agenda Setting for World Order Lawmaking and Policy Modelling. Written by Andrea Pitasi and Emilia Ferone, it cross-fertilizes all the five pillars described bellow: 1) The understanding of globalizations processes through identification/des-identifications, memetic recom- binations of mixed symbols and flexible heterodox tradi- tions, which could be broadly meant as the evolution of cosmopolitanism (Chapters 2, 3, and 7). 2) The empowerment of interconnected platforms (digital, legal, data, etc.) gives rise to a virtuous circle of memetic and symbolic recombination and reconfiguration (Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 7). 3) The setting up of a scenario were the sense of place and time is blurred by the memetic reconfigurations and platform expansions expanding memetic reconfigura- tions: the age knowledge-intensive and intangible value, which represents an impressive new Cambrian explosion for our times (Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 7) 4) The rethinking of epistemology, methodology and theory on a big data global scale and beyond method- ological nationalism as the only viable way to face the key evolutionary challenge before us, helping to overcome the temptation of pouring new wine into old bottles or present- ing old wine in new bottles (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7). 14 5) The impact of the intangible world in the dynamic between digitalization and taxation, which is an exemplary case of how the methodological and epistemological reset- ting coevolves the policy modelling toolkit. For instance, by setting problems differently and providing – or at least trying to provide – counterintuitive solutions (Chapters 3, 5, and 6). Still and all, because the texture of the special issue is wider, richer, more complex, neater, and further intrigu- ing, some case studies are presented (Chapters 8, 9, and 10). However unusual this five points compass might be, it facilitates the mapping of the special issue for the reader, allowing him/her to start a wonderful adventure in the complex and intangible global scenario we are living in. Leiden/Napoli/Curitiba, March 2019. 15 Andrea Pitasi and Emilia Ferone Turbulent Convergence A WCSA Presidential systemic Agenda Setting for World Order Lawmaking and Policy Modelling 1.One planet, many interconnected worlds This work is focused on turbulent convergences in our global scenario to be analyzed through a systemic approach. It is very important to consider we all live in just one planet: this planet, single planet is made of many interconnected worlds. As systemic scholars, we know dealing with complex evolutionary systems, that the system is involved in a holistic vision in which is unified sand interconnected but not integrated, moreover we know that the whole is much more than the mere sum of its parts. Many intercon- nected worlds which show us how the whole is greater and much more complex than the sum of its parts. That is why a systemic and holistic vision is strategic. Then, every one-sided, every unilateral, every simplistic interpretation, for example of political phenom- ena or economical ones is devoted to failure if we do not have a wider and more strategic and systemic vision in which we can frame and embed the phenomenon itself we are investigating. For example, we have many transnational / multi- national / supranational organizations which cover our planet through treaties, through agreements, through differ- ent protocols and most of them began originally shaped as International treaties and agreements then evolved proportionally to the development of legal and juridical globalization. 17 Day by day the world is turning the from is shifting from International to a transnational or even better supranational world order model as described for example in the field of Sociology of law by authors like Guenther Teubner or Christopher Thornhill. The UN is just one example. If you look at the map in practice, all the planet is covered by the UN treaty. There are no meaningful exemptions. Let’s provide some more information about UN: Headquarters in New York, US Offices in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna 193 Member Countries / 196 Countries in the world Figure 1. UN – United Nations map World Health Organization more or less tells the same story if you look at the map and the distribution figuration. Let us show briefly its key info: Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland 6 WHO regions 49 field offices in countries/territories/areas 18 Countries without a WHO office: covered by nearby field offices or by the appropriate regional office Figure 2. WTO – World Health Organization map If we check the International Labor Organization (ILO) it is the same story. Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland 187 Member Countries / 196 Countries in the world Divided into 5 regions: Africa, Americas, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia Figure 3. ILO – International Labour Organization map Everybody was involved. The illusion that the National governments can shape autonomously their own labor poli- cies is just a legend nowadays and again this post national 19 state pattern is reproduced by WTO evolving. Probably the most popular with the UN is the World Trade Organization shape the and founded by the treaty of Marrakesh on January 1st 1995. Once again, 164 members, member countries of course, and 23 observers, a very small