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The Italian Government
02.06.18 Publication: Vanity Fair
No one knows how to label the new government. Calling it “populist” seems bizarre given that Italian politics has been dominated for two decades by the...
Read moreItaly and the world
31.05.18 Publication: La Stampa
Let’s face it: the typical view in the outside world about Italian political crises is that they are dramatic but not serious. That may be why so little...
Read moreLesson for Europe: Mr.Abe´s Gamble
26.05.18 Publication: La Stampa
All politicians need luck, especially in their early months in office. So the lucky star has certainly shone on Japan’s new prime minister,...
Read moreKim and Trump
25.05.18 Publication: Project Syndicate
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to cancel the June 12 summit with Kim Jong-un represents a great diplomatic coup for the young North Korean leader....
Read moreTrade and Trump
19.05.18 Publication: Nikkei Business
During President Donald Trump’s first year in the White House, an English saying was often invoked when analysing the gap between what he said and what he...
Read moreInvesting in Equality
13.05.18 Publication: La Stampa
What do Donald Trump, Five Star, the Lega, Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban have in common? The answer is that they all favour closed...
Read moreEurope’s Challenges
10.05.18 Publication: La Stampa
Europe faces a severe test of its resilience, its coherence, its self-sufficiency -- the toughest, in fact, since 1945. Deserted and attacked by its closest...
Read moreNorth Korea
10.05.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun
The key question to ask oneself while we wait for the historic summit between Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, and President Donald Trump of the United...
Read moreWhy Asia Condemns Us to a Supporting Role
08.05.18 Publication: La Stampa
Perplexed. Baffled. Disdainful. Pitying. But in the end, not really interested. Those are sort of the words and phrases that came to my mind as I asked...
Read moreIt made great…
27.04.18 Publication: La Stampa
It made great television, for the place where the leaders of North and South Korea met on April 27th, the so-called De-Militarized Zone on the border between...
Read moreChina and Trump
08.04.18 Publication: Project Syndicate
We are about to witness a historic test of the wills and self-confidence of two superpowers, China and America, and of two leaders who see themselves as...
Read moreLabour
06.04.18 Publication: La Stampa
Across Europe, left-wing, social-democratic parties are in disarray, unable to find a coherent answer to the global financial crisis and to high public debts...
Read moreRussia
30.03.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun
How do you deal with a neighbour like Russia, which seems to enjoy breaking all sorts of rules, both legal ones and ethical ones? By economic sanctions? By...
Read moreHuman Capital
01.02.18 Publication: Nikkei Business
What is Japan’s biggest economic problem, or at least weakness, as we look ahead towards the 2020s and 2030s? A lot of people have favourite answers to...
Read moreElections
13.01.18 Publication: La Stampa
In every national election, there is a choice of emphasis: policies, political parties or personalities. While winner-takes-all electoral systems in the US,...
Read moreJapan’s crisis of quality and trust
17.11.17 Publication: Nikkei Business
We all make mistakes. That simple statement is as true of companies as it is of human beings, and should be kept in mind when we try to assess the impact of...
Read moreJapan´s crisis of quality and trust
17.11.17 Publication: Nikkei Business
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Read moreTrump in Asia
06.11.17 Publication: La Stampa
Normally, if a US President were to land in China in the midst of the longest visit to Asia by any American president for 25 years, it would be a demonstration...
Read moreThe meaning of XI Jinping´s rise
25.10.17 Publication: La Stampa
So we now know that President Xi Jinping is considered the most important, and thus most powerful, Chinese leader since the “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong,...
Read moreChina’s role in North Korea
04.10.17 Publication: La Stampa
Every time North Korea tests a nuclear weapon or missile, the question hangs in the mind: why are they doing this? Is it just to deter any potential attacker?...
Read moreChina´s role in North Korea
04.10.17 Publication: La Stampa
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Read moreThe importance of women for Japan
29.09.17 Publication: Nikkei Business
What is Prime Minister Abe’s plan for “womenomics” all about and can it really ever amount to anything meaningful in a country as conservative as Japan?...
Read moreA ‘China First’ strategy for North Korea
04.09.17 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – Most pundits agree that the least bad way to deal with North Korea’s nuclear saber rattling is a continued combination of tight containment and...
Read moreA ´China First´ strategy for North Korea
04.09.17 Publication: Project Syndicate
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