Official Announcement — New Book Publication

The Institute for Advance Studies and Cooperation is honoured to announce the publication of a new scholarly work:

GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM AND TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER

An Ethical-Garantist Compendium for World Peace in the Quantum Age

by Prof. Gabriele Pao-Pei Andreoli
with Prof. Alberto Contu

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We are living in a singular and decisive moment in human history. For the first time, humanity has access to decentralized, generative, and quantum-capable technologies powerful enough to reshape not only markets and societies, but the very foundations of governance, law, and global order. These transformations are unfolding within an international context marked by systemic instability, fragmentation of multilateral frameworks, and an increasing concentration of technological power beyond effective constitutional control.

This book is conceived as a rigorous and timely response to that condition.

Global Constitutionalism and Technologies of Power offers an interdisciplinary, ethical, and juridical framework for understanding and governing emerging technologies—artificial intelligence, algorithmic infrastructures, and quantum computing—not as neutral instruments, but as new forms of power requiring constitutional limitation, accountability, and democratic legitimacy.

The volume develops and extends the garantist constitutional tradition articulated by Luigi Ferrajoli, translating its core principles—legality, fundamental rights, separation of powers, and guarantees against arbitrariness—into the technological domain. In doing so, it proposes a vision of global constitutionalism capable of addressing the challenges posed by technological asymmetries, opaque decision-making systems, and post-national infrastructures of power.

Co-authored with Alberto Contu, the book brings together complementary perspectives in constitutional theory, ethics, and contemporary governance, offering both conceptual clarity and normative direction. It argues that peace in the twenty-first century can no longer be secured solely through political agreements or deterrence mechanisms, but must be grounded in constitutional architectures that precede and constrain technological power itself.

Addressed to jurists, policymakers, scientists, diplomats, and scholars of global governance, this work does not advocate technological determinism nor abstract idealism. Rather, it advances a concrete ethical-constitutional paradigm through which innovation may be reconciled with human dignity, democratic accountability, and the conditions for a peaceful and harmonious world order.

In an era in which technology increasingly precedes law, this book affirms the necessity for constitutional reason to reclaim its foundational role as the architecture of coexistence in the Quantum Age.