international analysis and commentary

Le tre scommesse perse da Theresa May

Anche il Regno Unito, nonostante il suo sistema maggioritario, dovrà fare affidamento su un parlamento senza maggioranze assolute. Ciononostante, l’arena politica britannica si ritrova come un tempo spaccata in due blocchi – a differenza di…

Southeast Asia in the age of Trump

In the early months of the Donald Trump administration, most South-East Asian nations have found themselves in a relatively familiar place in their dealings with Washington - on the periphery of U.S. policy. President Trump spoke with…

Quei tedeschi esclusi dalla crescita

Scrisse Niccolò Machiavelli che i tedeschi sono ricchi perché “vivono come poveri”. Un’analisi che, 500 anni dopo, apre ancora prospettive valide. Negli ultimi anni la Germania si è affermata come il paese più resiliente alla crisi…

The corruption curse across Latin America

Few people would have imagined even four or five years ago that dozens of political leaders from across Latin America would be languishing in jail today, or would be fighting charges of having plundered state coffers for personal gain,…

The Green Man of Russia: Alexei Navalny

After several chemical attacks that left him partially blinded, opposition leader Alexei Navalny was unexpectedly given a passport on May 4 to allow him to seek medical treatment abroad. The Kremlin irritant had lost his travel privileges…