Global Issues

Politica e contestazione dei vecchi modelli, tra blocchi sociali e territori

Alessandro Coppola and Marco Cremaschi and Silvia Lucciarini - Global Issues - 8/8/2018
I divari territoriali e le diseguaglianze spaziali sono tornati protagonisti del dibattito globale, tanto da assurgere – nei discorsi e nelle rappresentazioni di politici e media – a fattore strutturante del campo politico...

Migration in the EU: a decision-making crisis

Francesca Cocomero - Global Issues - 8/8/2018
2015 will be remembered as the year in which the European Union was flooded by an unprecedented number of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, posing an impressive operational, financial and organizational burden. While numbers have since decreased, since January 2015, almost 1.6 million people have crossed into southern Europe, with more than 13,000 found dead or missing...

Social democracy facing the challenge of populism

Jean-Luc Gaffard and Francesco Saraceno - Global Issues - 8/8/2018
After Germany and France, the Italian elections and the new government’s first steps confirm that the rise of populism in Europe affects all countries. At the same time, in these founding member states of the European Union, social democracy weakens dramatically when it does not collapse. Populism is also a major driving force behind the Brexit vote and the Catalan crisis...

Two Americas and the lost center

Eric B. Schnurer - Global Issues - 8/8/2018
All my life, I’ve been considered very liberal (that means basically “left,” in American usage)...

The first Trump-Putin summit: a turning point with many question marks

Yuval Weber - Global Issues - 22/7/2018
The July 16th Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will be a turning point in American political history and US-Russia relations. However, whether the effect on Russia in the long term will be positive or negative is now even more unclear as both leaders pledged greater short-term cooperation...

Engaging Russia: a gamble and its limits

Ivan Nechepurenko - Global Issues - 20/7/2018
The first summit between the leaders of Russia and the United States produced very little tangible news. Still, it ignited an emotional storm that reflected polarized perceptions of the world by American and Russian elites. These divergent worldviews are the real cause of the crisis in the countries’ bilateral relations...

A Russian conservative view of Putin: interview with Alexander Dugin

Andrew Spannaus - Global Issues - 15/7/2018
After the splash of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, U.S. President Donald Trump is now ready for another step in his disruptive diplomacy, a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Trump’s NATO summit: when drama overcomes substance

Alessandro Marrone - Global Issues - 15/7/2018
The 2018 NATO Summit will be remembered as one of the most tense in recent history. The reasons do not lie in external challenges or enemies, as the 29 allies once again showed convergence on measures adopted to safeguard their national and collective security. The drama, rather, came from US President Donald Trump’s negotiation and communication strategy...

L’evoluzione del capitalismo di stato nel gigante cinese

Francesco Leone Grotti - Global Issues - 12/7/2018
Il capitalismo di stato di stampo cinese è costellato di bachi e problemi. Ciononostante, ha portato un paese che negli anni Settanta era sull’orlo del collasso a diventare la seconda economia più grande del mondo, facendo uscire dalla povertà in tempi record centinaia di milioni di persone (i poveri erano 750 milioni nel 1990, sono 42 milioni oggi)...

Il collasso di Pdvsa, specchio petrolifero del Venezuela

Lorenzo Di Muro - Global Issues - 12/7/2018
Architrave della rivoluzione bolivariana di Hugo Chávez assieme alla compenetrazione fra forze armate e burocrazia statale, l’industria petrolifera nazionale del Venezuela è stata al contempo una manna e una maledizione per Caracas...