Tag: Volume XVII Issue 2
False Promises from the Deep Sea
When you think about the deep sea, what images come to mind? Darkness, a sense of the unknown, perhaps fear of the creatures looming...
A Bitter Harvest: Caporalato and Agromafia
Italian policymakers and businesses have invested substantial financial resources in their drive to promote their agricultural sector as bucolic, pastoral and, above all, traditional....
Celestial Battlefields: Private Actors in the U.S.-China Competition for Space Supremacy
“To control space means to control the land, seas, and skies.” The Space Race of the 21st century has intensified awareness about the strategic...
Trade, War and Stability: Mapping Global Influence in the 21st Century
In a world of globalisation, power relations are no longer dictated by military strength or economic power but by a subtle balance of international...
A Firewall Is Not a Betrayal of Democracy – It Is Its Essence
A firewall can be considered the categorical imperative of all those who call themselves democrats. While this is very pointed, it carries a serious...
Idyll to Delirium: Europe’s Economic Stagnat
Europe has achieved great things. Leaving behind a history of violence and war, the continent and its foremost representative, the European Union (EU), has...
Stereotypes and Reality
Putin’s Perspective vs. Western Views
On February 24, 2022, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops began. This event brought an incredible amount of...
Protecting power, not principles: How firewalls erode democracy
In some Western democratic countries, so-called “firewalls” have become a common tool in politics for coping with certain political actors such as the Alternative...
Putin’s Hope for European Decadence
Russian intellectual elites have long engaged with the idea that Europe finds itself in a state of moral and cultural decline, which they project...
