POLYCENTRISM VERSUS SOVEREIGNTY. THE NEW NORMATIVE ORDERS

Abstract

The  article  explores  how  globalization  is  assuming  a  progressive  emptying  of  the sovereignty  of nation states in economic,  political, institutional,  social, cultural and legal aspects. The traditional  legal institutions  are increasingly  giving rise to new non-state re- gulatory sources (supranational,  private, technical  and communitarian).  The result of this polycentric  regulatory  complex  is the coexistence  of a diversity  of normative  orders and jurisdictions  involving  the exhaustion  of the legal  paradigm  around  which  the State  has structured  its institutions.