The current financial crisis has lasted longer and been more damaging than expected, revealing the extent of market failure. The rule-free market era is over. (…)The global financial emergency: how to overcome it
The upshot of this debate was that the church has every right to participate in a public debate, but the state must remain secular. Laws (…)Religion and politics in the global era
Demographic waves, technological innovation and citizens’ expectations: these are today’s major challenges. And, in the years to come, healthcare will become an increasingly important issue (…)The Italian health system: sustainability, quality and responsibility
Affirming values in an abstract way is a facile exercise; practicing and respecting values demands commitment and clear terms of reference. Such guidelines can only (…)Values: an obstacle or an opportunity?
The concept of “human security” revolves around bettering overall conditions – not just security but economic conditions – for people in a crisis or post-conflict (…)A human security approach in Afghanistan: can the Euro-American community benefit?
Bilateral relations between Italy and Israel have intensified recently, producing some promising results, though, for the big strategic questions and economic issues, broader EU involvement (…)Italy, Europe and Israel: building a privileged partnership
Without denying the status of banks as fully-fledged businesses yet reaffirming their intrinsic difference to any other type of entrepreneurial undertaking, participants at this roundtable (…)Italy’s banks and the national interest
It is by now an increasingly widespread view that the implementation of the new framework of financial relations between the State and local administrations foreshadowed (…)Fiscal federalism in Italy: improving efficiency and modernizing the country
Human rights were defined as fundamental inalienable rights of all individuals. The tradition of human rights trace back to the ancient world and was codified (…)Human rights and politics: facing the issue from a US and an Italian perspective
Discussion here touched on the significant slowdown of America’s economy. Theories to explain this turn of events abound: from the real estate bubble to the (…)The American economy today and its global implications
This conference was launched in memory of all that Giovanni Agnelli gave to strengthen relations between the United States and Italy. Discussion went on to (…)Italy, Europe and the U.S. The Transatlantic link and its future
Form and beauty, joy and endurance in the face of suffering, a sense of what’s real, a dislike for certain forms of rhetoric, a dissociation (…)Italy’s identity, culture and language
The global economic scene is suffering from a worldwide slowdown in growth, the effects of the recent American financial crisis, monetary imbalances between the US (…)The global economy and Italian businesses: investing in high tech, creativity and design
Globalization, the erosion of the classic hallmarks of national sovereignty, the technological revolution and the financialization of the economy: all these scenarios have been at (…)The global crisis: values and the marketplace in Europe and Italy
The international workshop focused particularly on the debate currently underway inside Russia, which sees various schools of thought playing a key role despite the regime’s (…)What does Russia Think? Politics of ideas and policy choices
This seminar focused on the fact that Italy has three important and strategic crisis areas to deal with simultaneously, namely, immigrants, women and youth. Indeed, (…)Italy’s future: multi-ethnic integration, women, youth
The wiki model, the gift economy and coopetition: these three seemingly obscure concepts harbor features of the most advanced contemporary social relations models. Representing relational (…)New scenarios for business: the spread of knowledge and consumer promotion
The seminar, part of a series dealing with major issues and devoted to the National Interest, examined several crucial points for the promotion of economic (…)Freeing up growth: how to ensure productivity and competitiveness in Italy
