Il Lessico Della Politica Nell’Europa Contemporanea

“Il Lessico della Politica nell’Europa Contemporanea” is the Italian  version of the paper Towards a new Political Lexicon for Contemporary Europe.

Terms such as “independentism”, “nationalism”, “federalism”, “populism” and “sovereignism” are often used in ways that are far from their historical definitions and are therefore the subject of misleading criticism. This makes raising awareness about the dynamics of stateless nations difficult, since these nations’ claims are generally not understood by the general public. The media, in an attempt to read these political phenomena, also tend to simplify the definitions of those words, thereby exacerbating misunderstandings.

This paper serves as a written tool following a conference on this same topic which occurred on 4 September 2021 in Alghero, Sardinia, and co-organized with the Istituto Camillo Bellieni. The purpose of the conference, and this paper, is to provide tools and operate a re-definition of the above terms related to self-determination, thus providing a “dictionary” that would help understand the complexity of contemporary Europe and allow the public to better participate in public debates on these issues.

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This paper is financially supported by the European Parliament. The European Parliament is not liable for the content of the conference or the opinions of the authors.

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