Cooperazione e Cultural Diplomacy: resilienza e cultural focal points

[Autom. eng. transl.] The new forms of widespread conflict call for innovative response strategies at the political level and question cooperation as a system of intervention suited to the new challenges. Premise. A brief introduction, which contextualizes the above, underlines how globalization - of which we speak daily - is still an unfinished and misunderstood process, which attempts to contain in the interpretative paradigms of the past without making the conceptual leap that involves a change in itself radical. It could be added that perhaps this leap "did not want to be done", in the hope of maintaining the "previous order" forms, corresponding to consolidated cognitive models. For this reason, globalization is generally explained as "complexity", due to the intensification of relations between an increasingly dense network of nodes, and as a "homologation", a spread of uniformity that guarantees linear relations between nodes. In both cases, globalization is interpreted with paradigms of the "pre-global", dreaming of restoration, that is, normalization and return, and not the change of a paradigm of understanding of the world.