Legal Reflections on the Defence and Promotion of Cultural Heritage at a Time of Globalisation

The cultural property sector, and more generally the cultural heritage sector, is not exempt from being involved in the pressing and unstoppable phenomenon on a global scale that is globalisation. The contribution aims to analyse the multiple effects of this phenomenon on the category of cultural heritage. In fact, the understanding of the relationship between globalization and cultural heritage, as well as the resolution of a series of related problems (e.g.: increase in illicit trafficking cultural goods, need to prepare a regulation, etc. ..), which have become more urgent with the creation of a "global market", have made it clear to the jurist, especially comparatist, that the discipline of cultural heritage contains an unavoidable tension between the national framework and the international one. The contribution aims also to provide a further reading of the relationship between globalization and cultural heritage, which it is believed cannot be overlooked: to understand cultural heritage no longer only as an object but also as a positive protagonist of the globalization process, meaning the globalisation as a dialogue between communities and the breaking down of borders. In this sense, the two UNESCO conventions for the protection of the intangible cultural heritage (2003) and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) can be framed