For a critique of absolute external constraint

There is bad blood between geopolitics and the constitution. But it is a serious mistake to think that there is no relationship that binds them. Every constitution is based on the effects that a specific geopolitical structure has produced and is conditioned by it. That is, it incorporates the question of sovereignty, as a great point of contact between external and internal, as well as an indicator of autonomy and political existence. Sovereignty does not disappear at all with the constitutional state, but rather undergoes metamorphoses. A democratic constitution represents the founding pact of a community, not imposed from outside, but stipulated between its members: it is a pact with oneself, that is, an internal bond. There is a precise link between introjection of the external constraint and crisis of the internal constraint. Not only can the absolutization of the external constraint not compensate for the crisis of the internal constraint, but it takes it to the extreme. For this reason, Italy, which has devoted itself to this logic since ’92-’93, is experiencing a profound crisis, which is political and social, but also cultural and anthropological.

Keywords: Geopolitics, War, Realism, Capitalism, Will to Power.

Geminello Preterossi, Per una critica del vincolo esterno assoluto in "DIRITTO COSTITUZIONALE" 1/2025, pp 131-152, DOI: 10.3280/DC2025-001006