Colombia no es una isla.

Against those who maintain that Colombia must globalize, it is necessary to affirm that no country is an island, that is, that all, in some way, are globalized in a history of humanity that has been unified, in many cases, at the expense of cultural diversity. The question that must be asked, therefore, is not whether Colombia should globalize, the question is in what way has Colombia globalized? In the same sense, after confirming that in the context of globalization all countries are inserted in the market economy, even against the idea of building their own development model, the question that must be proposed is: in what way Has Colombia been inserted into the world economy, that is, under what conditions has it been inserted and what social benefits and costs have been derived from that insertion?

This statement raises a question: how should the relations between society, politics and economy be structured in a developing State like the Colombian one when at the same time it must face an armed conflict of very complex dimensions, and which takes root in inequality? and exclusion, does it also need to face the consequences of an inevitable insertion into the world economy that worsens inequality and exclusion?

One of the corollaries that can be gleaned from this work is the following: the social State of law faces a paradox because under the new context of globalization it must achieve two objectives that seem opposite and, perhaps, irreconcilable: first, it must assume greater responsibilities to regulate practices derived from the internationalization of the market economy; Secondly, it must achieve the premises on the humanization of development referred to the internationalization of human rights. However, the State must achieve these objectives in a globalized context under whose dynamics two phenomena are experienced: on the one hand, a decline of public affairs and democracy that in the mid-20th century gave meaning to the institutions that seek to guarantee human rights. social and promote intervention in the economy; on the other, a decline in its sovereignty, a loss of its legitimacy and a considerable decline in its powers or attributes.