Agrifood Global Market and Social Market Economy

The ESM model was later adopted also for the development of the institutions of the nascent European Community, acting as an address throughout the process of institutional innovation of the community.
The reason why it was possible to develop the ESM within Europe was paradoxically the American leadership. The foreign policy of the United States, in fact, eased the European states from the problems of foreign policy and defense. Thus it was possible to manage the reconstruction and the new European policies through a decentralized governance of the EU institutions.
The central role the European Union gives the ESM was reaffirmed in the recent Lisbon Treaty. The third paragraph of Article 2 of the Treaty states in fact that the member States should aspire to achieve a "social market competitive economy".
The European case shows how it was possible to take those general principles for the construction of new forms of institutional innovations which are unprecedented. The balance of political and economic power of the European institutions is different from the one established in the Federal Republic of Germany, the latter being of federal character actually and with a well-defined central government.
The lack of a central government and of a federal structure has meant that the ESM model developed in Germany has been reinterpreted to be adapted to the community governance.
The same way it happened in Europe, it could be possible to adopt the paradigm of ESM in the context of the global market, in order to create a renewed institutional architecture founded on solid guide principles.
With the advent of globalization, the role of international institutions is crucial and it is essential to focus the right interpretative key allowing an organic evolution of these institutions. Also internationally it is possible to devise a path of institutional development for spill-over forcing existing institutions to evolve into more democratic and transparent organs.
The institutional form should also be efficient and appropriate to develop practical solutions to global problems, and should have the necessary skills to bind and verify the operation of individual nation states. The ESM model proves to be a good starting point to achieve these objectives and that can ensure greater equity in the distribution of benefits among the members of the international community (Glossner & Gregosz, 2010).
To this goal, however, it is desirable to identify some steering principles that may guide the innovation process of international institutions.