Publication: La Stampa

China’s role in North Korea

04.10.17 Publication:

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?...

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China´s role in North Korea

04.10.17 Publication:

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The temptation to return to De Gaulle

29.07.17 Publication:

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...

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How Europe can re-unite after Donald

12.06.17 Publication:

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...

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The new nightmare in France

12.04.17 Publication:

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...

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The Implications of President Trump for US-Russia Relations

09.11.16 Publication:

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...

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Obama’s legacy in Asia-Pacific

20.10.16 Publication:

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...

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Obama´s legacy in Asia-Pacific

20.10.16 Publication:

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Brazil: Giant on a precipice’

18.05.16 Publication:

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...

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Brazil: Giant on a precipice´

18.05.16 Publication:

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Europe needs to attack the Caliphate’s credibility

24.03.16 Publication:

After terrorist atrocities such as those in Brussels yesterday or in Paris in January and November last year, the political pressure to react, to act, to fight...

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Europe needs to attack the Caliphate´s credibility

24.03.16 Publication:

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Why the EU-Turkey deal makes sense

10.03.16 Publication:

There is something very disturbing about doing a deal, involving billions of euros and a lot of concessions, with a country whose government has become so...

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Suspend Schengen to save it

19.01.16 Publication:

The collapse of the “Schengen” passport-free travel zone would destroy the single market and the euro, according to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the...

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Britain’s year of decision

30.12.15 Publication:

It will be a decision that shapes Britain, and its place in the world, for decades to come, perhaps for the whole of the 21st century. It will be a decision...

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Britain´s year of decision

30.12.15 Publication:

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The Front National

08.12.15 Publication:

The only thing that is “shocking” about the vote in Sunday’s French regional elections for the far-right Front National is that anyone in politics or the...

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Angela Merkel in danger

20.11.15 Publication:

Frau Merkel is, of course, completely different from Herr Schmidt. He was arrogant and plain-speaking, the opposite of diplomatic, while she is diffident and...

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China and its “two-child” policy

30.10.15 Publication:

It is an act typical of an old Communist regime where officials think that if they send out a decree, things will actually happen: 35 years after China...

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The leader who triumphs with humility

26.09.15 Publication:

What makes for successful leadership, in these troubled times? America has for the past few days been witnessing two very different foreign leaders: one from...

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With Corbyn, the UK moves away from Europe

13.09.15 Publication:

When the Partito Democratico suffered its surprise general election defeat in 2013, the party eventually indicated its desire for change by choosing a...

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David Cameron’s hot autumn

02.09.15 Publication:

How awkward it is to have ministers who speak freely to the media using words you cannot control. That is the eternal truth for prime ministers everywhere, but...

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David Cameron´s hot autumn

02.09.15 Publication:

How awkwardit is to have ministers who speak freely to the media using words you cannot control. That is the eternal truth for prime ministers everywhere,...

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Nuclear Japan, 70 years after Hiroshima

26.07.15 Publication:

Ever since their first contact with Europeans in the 16th century, the Japanese have always seemed hard to understand. The 70th anniversary of one of the worst...

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