12/11/2024
Jeannette Graulau
The profitability crisis that began in the 1960s severely hindered American iron, mining, and steel multinationals. The effects of coercive competition among Western economies, coupled with waves of expropriation of mining assets across the developing world, were a threat to maintaining American global military and industrial power.
Fabio Masini
At the Annual Meeting of the World Bank and the IMF in Hong Kong on September 21st, 1997, soon after the collapse of the Thai baht in July and the subsequent outburst of the East-Asian currency crisis, the Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka officially proposed the creation of a $100 billion Asian Monetary Fund.
Francesco Petrone
The so-called Liberal International Order (LIO) is in crisis and undergoing a major transformation, driven by both internal dynamics within States and global structural changes.
Adam Daniel Rotfeld
The main message of the essay is focused on three important arguments that are often neglected: first, the blurring of the difference between what is internal and what belongs to external relations among the states; the second is the factor of accelerated change: all the nations are living in times of fundamental change of circumstances in which decisions are made; and, thirdly, the central issue and subject of our assessment should be addressed to the moral responsibility of leaders for the decisions they make, i.e. respecting universal human values.
Diego Brasioli
Symbiotic realism is an international political and philosophical approach developed by Saudi thinker Nayef Al-Rodhan. This theory aims to provide a more holistic and interconnected understanding of global reality, grafting into the traditional doctrine of political realism – which focuses primarily on the supremacy of nation-States and the conflictual nature of power –, in order to enrich it with empirically grounded insights into the possibilities of peaceful competition and prosperous coexistence for all states and cultures, thus mitigating the innate emotional tendencies of human nature and the underlying neurochemical motivations.
Franco Damaso Marengo
Reactions to the Israeli-Hamas war mark a profound change in Western and, specifically, Western élites attitudes towards Israel. I formulate some of these changes through an analysis of reports and comments on the war which appeared on the «Financial Times», a mouthpiece for contemporary Western liberal elites.
