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Globalizzazione: eppur si muove

Il 22 febbraio 2016 il primo ministro britannico David Cameron annuncia alla Camera dei Comuni che un referendum sulla Brexit avrà luogo il 23 giugno. È la prima di una lunga serie di notizie negative per il commercio internazionale. In…

Russia 2026: the Potemkin Elections

Those familiar with Russian history will know of the so-called “Potemkin village.” Under the reign of Catherine II (1762–1796), the general Grigori Potemkin — whose campaigns led to the conquest of Crimea and much of today’s southern…

A decade of Macron’s foreign policy

In May 2017, Emmanuel Macron entered the Élysée Palace as, by some distance, the most explicitly doctrinaire French president in a long time. His ambition was not purely to govern France but to reposition it as a puissance d'équilibre, the…