No social life is possible without order. Order being the most constituent element of society, it is not surprising that so many theories have been developed to explain what social order is and how it is possible, as well as to explore the features that social order acquires in its different dimensions.
Sergio Dellavalle is Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Turin, Italy, and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Constitutional Law and International Law, Germany.