Five hundred years after the Battle of Pavia, Aspen Institute Italia’s international conference in this city brought together important personalities and the leaders of the (…)The Battle of Pavia and the future of European defense (1525-2025)
The cornerstone of the Trump administration’s domestic policy agenda is the full re-assertion of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the United States (also understood (…)US and Europe: a new agenda for transatlantic relations
Globalization, understood as a political and economic project based on the supremacy of the global market with respect to states and citizens, is currently experiencing (…)The Future of Capitalism
The key function of risk management can transmute into chronic pessimism or self-fulfilling prophecies, if risk is understood purely as danger and cost. But risk (…)Assessing risk: business in global disorder
New problems naturally cause new headaches. This increases the urgency and importance of finding new tools to deal with new challenges. Today, global governance must (…)The EU-China Forum on global governance
The conference, in its third edition in 2024, hosted a debate on common European defense that made analogies between a revolutionary event – the Battle (…)The Battle of Pavia and the future of European defense (1525-2025)
The standards framework for the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), in all its many applications, is necessarily established at European level. Despite recent legislation (AI (…)Our digital future: geoeconomics and security in the AI era
Capitalism, understood as a method for managing the exchange of goods and services, is in continuous evolution: never an exact science, it has been piloted (…)The future of capitalism
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be the harbinger of future threats rather than an exception, unfortunately. Yet some features of the conflict – especially in (…)Assessing risk: business in global disorder
The Italian presidency of the G7 comes at very challenging times, with multiple and intersecting crises: a collective response, engaging the so-called Global South, is needed. And such a response should include a meaningful participation by women.
In 1525, Pavia was the site of the first European battle in modern history in terms of army composition and geopolitical scale of objectives and (…)The Battle of Pavia and the future of European defense (1525-2025)
A point of departure in analyzing the events of October 7, 2023 – both political and military – is the fact that the entire region and international community was taken entirely by surprise.
The energy transition is bringing unprecedented change to the world’s economies and societies after a century of abundant, reliable and relatively low-cost carbon fuel. The (…)Clean Energy: Many Pathways and Future Challenges
Contemplation of the future of the West becomes especially vital for a fragmented world in the throes of rising geopolitical tension. The situation’s foremost victim is globalization, which for thirty-odd years seemed to have arrested history but whose dynamics have come forcefully back to center stage.
In un quadro di sicurezza internazionale molto incerto, e con un “ordine globale” (di marca occidentale) oggi apertamente contestato da più parti, nuove fonti di instabilità economica sono emerse recentemente.
On March 6 – one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine – the Center for American Studies in Rome held an event to take (…)Transatlantic Forum: the future of the West
Dall’indagine demoscopica commissionata da Aspen Institute Italia emerge un’opinione pubblica italiana complessivamente consapevole delle gravità di varie sfide internazionali alla sicurezza. Si denota un certo equilibrio tra il legame transatlantico e le partnership europee, ma anche molta prudenza nell’assumere gravosi impegni nazionali all’estero. Restano alcune tradizionali differenze di opinione e percezione tra Italia e Stati Uniti, soprattutto rispetto all’uso della forza militare e ai futuri rapporti con la Russia.
The conference is part of the broader “Aspen Global Initiative in Favor of Pure Science”, the result of the first-ever collaboration of all the Aspen Institutes around the world. The meeting set itself the goal of focusing attention on future attempts to raise awareness among public and private decision makers and the entire civil society of the need for increased financial and human investments on behalf of pure science.
Opportunities for increased collaboration between Italy and France, reinforced by the Quirinal Treaty and the protocols signed in Parliament, will have to be developed in the settings of the EU and the two nations’ common neighborhood policies vis à vis the southeast.
