RSPI 2010/1

31/03/2010

Trans-Atlantic relations and world governance

Guido Lenzi

In the present transitional phase, the transatlantic relationship must recover its original task to preserve the Western unity of purpose, critical as it is for the restoration of a world-wide system of international relations, in a resumption of the international liberalism approach.

La conférence sur le climat de Copenhague

Romain Yakemtchouk

The 193 Heads of State and Heads of Government present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen have underlined that the climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and have agreed that deep cuts in global emissions are required with a view to reduce emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius.

Religion and American foreign policy: the Bush-Obama divide and its impact on Transatlantic relations

Youri Devuyst

In 2003, Eu High Representative Javier Solana declared that the religious certainty behind the Bush administration’s sharp moral convictions constituted one of the root causes of the transatlantic rift at the start of the 21st century.

La place de la religion en économie: l’opposition Bastiat-Buchanan

Rashid Sbia - Nicolaye Lamy

Frederic Bastiat does not have a popular aura within the scientific community of economists. Nevertheless, he is often considered as close theorist of the Public Choice, especially by his relatively modern analysis on the design of the law and the State.

Assonanze planistiche ed obiettivi produttivistici dell’Alta Autorità Ceca

Alessandro Isoni

The paper analyzes the influence of third way ideologies on the Ecsc High Authority, particularly with regard to its duties and organisation. Starting from the scientific debate about the legal status of the first successful attempt of European integration, the Author reconstructs a set of ideal and personal links between groups and people operating throughout the Thirties and Forties of the XXth century in France and some economic measures adopted in the same country during the postwar period.

Democratizzazione e sistema internazionale: l’Europa post-comunista dal crollo del muro di Berlino all’integazione europea

Barbara Pisciotta

This essay deals with the international dimension of democratization in East and Central Europe. In the first part it discusses the conceptual framework of external factors of democratic consolidation and describes the historical development of Western strategies to promote democratic regimes before 1989.

Il linguaggio di Joseph Ratzinger, papa Benedetto XVI

Amedeo Benedetti

The paper focuses on the language of Pope Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger (Marktl am Inn, Germany, 1927), one of the most significative leaders in the world, makes copious use of witty remarks, proverbs, biblical expressions, maxims of popular lore, scholastic logics, professorial techniques, that have a persuasive effect on the audience.