Societies will collapse without a minimal degree of social integration.
Social integration,
solidarity are the two founding concepts of the Durkheimian sociology.
And so, many people, and especially some students of Durkheim,
like the French politician Léon Bourgeois or
Aristide Briand, we were inspired by, and
influenced by Durkheim's threat that in the world we
have to pay attention to minimal international integration.
Without minimal integration,
without minimal social integration of the world, there is the same risk of collapse.
And the main point of this lecture will be to point
that the present international system is
fragile because it is not integrated enough.
And if there is this lack of integration, there is a risk of conflict.
The present conflict are no more made of competition among states,
but are made of this lack of international social integration.
This lack of international social integration is defined
by some indexes, like the human development index.
That's to say, for instance, lack of education or