Volume 6 Issue 1 October 2018
Are Constitutions
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Globalisation has become an intrinsic part of contemporary social life because it has affected and influenced changes in the social landscape such as economics, politics, culture, technology and the environment to name a few. Since national economies have gradually turned into marketplaces for transnational and global flows, as opposed to primary recipients of national socio-economic activity, the authority, and legitimacy of nation-states is challenged: national governments have increasingly become unable either to control what happens within their own borders or to fulfil by themselves the demands of their own citizens. The nature of these global transformations has had a direct impact on international and national political and legal structures, so this article enquires: are constitutions still relevant in this context of globalisation? It also argues that, for a global constitution to be credible, representative and legitimate, the collective interests of humanity should take precedent over the interests of individual nation-states.
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