21st International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

Social competition results from challenges to the political hierarchical status quo. Social identity creativity is more likely to be the response if substantive benefits result from it in the form of achievement of status. Status enhancement emerges from validation of self at a supranational level than the core national-based nation state. Pavone highlights how legal “strategic entrepreneurs,” i.e., two “Eurolawyers,” liberalized labor laws at the Port of Genoa by utilizing the EU legal regime’s “transformative potential” with its for-profit and civil society allies (2019, 5-6). Globalization exploits national vested interests to secure additional benefits by promoting neo-functional spillover with supranational regime institutionalization as one of its outcomes. These economic and governmental vested interests can become coalitional allies for this process through promotion of international trade regimes with trade dispute resolution mechanisms. Incorporation of sustainable development and human rights protections, e.g., autonomous trade unionization as right, can motivate the coalitional alliance with the non-profit, global civil society organizations. It can particularly play this role insofar as diaspora identities have a potential for mobilization among traditionally marginalized groups. Successful, effective institutionalization of neo-functional spillover will promote the diversification of the state, thereby to make individual social mobility more feasible for individuals within these marginalized groups. It can coopt these heretofore marginalized citizens increasing the relevance of utilitarian economic and participation incorporation becoming more prominent. (Reference: Pavone, Tommaso. 2019. “From Marx to Market: Lawyers, European Law, and the Contentious Transformation of the Port of Genoa,” Law & Society Review 53(3): 851–888. http://dx.doi.org /10.1111/lasr.12365.)

Presenters

Benedict Edward DeDominicis
Professor of Political Science, School of International Studies, Catholic University of Korea, Gyeonggido [Kyonggi-do], South Korea