Pochi termini racchiudono la fisionomia della nostra epoca e, dunque, sanno cogliere alcune caratteristiche e tendenze fondamentali del nostro tempo come le parole estetica, tecnica, politica. Nell’approccio adottato in questo libro, tali parole-chiave non sono riferite...

The paper aims to argue that a dichotomist approach on human rights is a major problem in relations between the United States and China. The argument has been built through a case-study on US-China public discourses on COVID-19 and human rights, which posits that a dich...

Published online: 10 May 2022 No abstract available

Published on 15 March 2022 The Special Drawing Rights (SDR) system was designed in the 1960s as a mechanism to redistribute foreign exchange reserves within the Bretton Woods System. The new SDR allocation of August 2021 is an attempt to harness it to provide more elast...

The economies of Japan and of the EU followed similar trends in 2020, a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. Both economies faced shrinking GDP, growing unemployment, rising public debt, while inflation stayed moderate and the exchange rate remained stable. Although th...

The Covid-19 existential crisis has brought social protection and the welfare state back into the limelight. Whereas in good times welfare support mostly operates in the background, in hard times it comes to the surface. • Like the Great Recession, the pandemic also exp...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led many analysts to worry about the fate of global democracy, as governments the world over centralised power and enacted emergency legislation. In India, the world’s largest democracy, this prediction has turned out to be accurate...

The present policy brief was prepared on the occasion of the EUI’s The State of the Union 2022 Conference on “A Europe Fit for the Next Generation?”. The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching multi-dimensional repercussions placed an unprecedented press...

Published online: 02 February 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has remade the rules of international mobility. During the initial stage of the pandemic, in an attempt to stave off a health crisis that threatened to put further pressure on already strained systems, states allo...