This paper develops a structural framework to analyze the limits of political and economic freedom in a globalized world. It argues that the absence of a global demos and a shared conceptual system prevents the direct extension of liberal-democratic models to the international level. Building on the Philosophy of Belonging, the article reconceptualizes freedom as an emergent property of institutional arrangements that reduce arbitrariness, domination, and exclusion. Globalization is interpreted as a process that integrates the economic, social, and emotional destinies of diverse populations, making the construction of functional global belonging unavoidable. The paper proposes a three-stage institutional agenda: (1) global economic growth through the expansion of a world middle class, (2) explicit institutions of inclusion and belonging, and (3) the consolidation of stable, non-arbitrary freedom. It concludes that global freedom must be understood as incremental institutional engineering based on functional coordination rather than normative uniformity.
Carlos Federico Obregon Diaz (Sun,) studied this question.