ABSTRACT: Caggiano says he is joining because the "transnational radical party has relinquished the limited and contingent dimension of a localist reality"...

As a scholar of international relations, I have often felt the frustration of not being able to communicate ideas and propositions to improve the functioning of the organizations and of international cooperations, outside the group of specialists, in the academic and diplomatic world.

The Transnational Party represents an absolutely unique opportunity to circulate ideas and mobilize energies and aspirations of people who more and more feel that there can be no rule of law without the affirmation of the international law and of the United Nations. This is all the more true since a lack of legality and international justice would have the consequence of strengthening the States on a nationalist basis, disrespectful of human rights, and would also foster local-level strife that would lead to further tragedies.

A party that has relinquished the limited dimension of a localist reality to head towards a universal dimension in which everything "is in balance", therefore, represents an extraordinary opportunity which I hope many will seize. I have decided to participate in this experience of the Transnational Radical Party by joining for 1994, offering my juridical knowledge and a few remarks prompted by my every-day work.