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Patrick Hunout is a researcher and policymaker who in 1999 created The International Scope Review, a peer-reviewed academic journals in the economic and social sciences.

His work explores the formation of what he called a New Leviathan around the hypothesis that the upper class of society seeks to build a new order based on less equality and less democracy.

His model suggests that the strategies carried forward by the New Leviathan link intimately the economic, ethnic, and interpersonal fields. These strategies consist in developing economic flexibility and precariousness, promoting migrations and a multiethnic society, and pushing forward individualist,hedonist and consumerist values. In a last resort, they design a weak society, enslaved to market values and governmental controls rendered necessary by the increasing incapacity of an atomized social body to manage itself.

The strategies carried forward by the ruling class explain most contemporary difficulties; if they would be inverted, a huge improvement would follow.

Patrick Hunout is the President and the Founder of The Social Capital Foundation, created 2002, the aim of which is to help restore, revitalize and strengthen the social link in Europe. The Social Capital Foundation proposes to counter the policies of the New Leviathan by consolidating the community spirit, developing a democratic middle-class centered society, promoting an equitable share of wealth, protecting cultural identity against mass migrations, and strengthening shared values within the social body.

• Social capital
• Community building
• Sense of community
• Communitarianism
• Anomie
• Social innovation

• The Social Capital Foundation