Publication: La Stampa
Five Star’s Identity at a Crossroads
30.08.19 Publication: La Stampa
What is a populist political party, what is its purpose and how worried should we be? Those questions have been buzzing around in the heads of political...
Read moreNext, a British General Election
12.07.19 Publication: La Stampa
We will not know until July 24 whether Britain’s next prime minister will be Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, and we may not know until after the summer...
Read moreEurope’s Protest Against the Protestors
28.05.19 Publication: La Stampa
It can be counted as a protest vote against the previous protest vote. That is of course an over-simplification of the European Parliament elections, as any...
Read moreThe danger of a US-China deal
03.02.19 Publication: La Stampa
The trade war between the United States and China risks getting nastier, lasting for years and damaging all our economies. Negotiations in Washington, DC, on...
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 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 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 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 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 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 temptation to return to De Gaulle
29.07.17 Publication: La Stampa
General de Gaulle: a tall, proud, somewhat pompous nationalist who sees himself as being free to take his own initiatives. Such a stance is admirable in its...
Read moreHow Europe can re-unite after Donald
12.06.17 Publication: La Stampa
Following President Trump’s first visit to Europe, the Western alliance looks frayed and fragile. Not only has the leading country of the West elected a...
Read moreThe new nightmare in France
12.04.17 Publication: La Stampa
With less than two weeks to go before the first round of France’s presidential election, financial markets are waking up to a new potential nightmare. Having...
Read moreThe Implications of President Trump for US-Russia Relations
09.11.16 Publication: La Stampa
President Vladimir Putin must be a happy man: in January he will have America’s version of Silvio Berlusconi as his counterpart in the White House. He had...
Read moreObama’s legacy in Asia-Pacific
20.10.16 Publication: La Stampa
Most of President Barack Obama´s foreign policy has had to be reactive to inherited wars, to new civil wars, to new sources of pressure and instability. But...
Read moreObama´s legacy in Asia-Pacific
20.10.16 Publication: La Stampa
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Read moreBrazil: Giant on a precipice’
18.05.16 Publication: La Stampa
To vote to impeach a president is, in any country, a kind of political nuclear weapon: it should be a very last resort, for such an extreme act can have...
Read moreBrazil: Giant on a precipice´
18.05.16 Publication: La Stampa
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