Maria Tavernini 14 July 2020
Beyond the veil of diplomacy, insight into last month’s cruel border clashes reveals growing tension between the two Asian giants
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- Daniel A. Bell 18 May 2020In China, leaders fear elections, even at local level. But democracy is not just about elections and China is experimenting with non-electoral mechanisms of political participation, such as deliberation and sortition. Can such mechanisms help to secure social cohesion in China?
- 17 April 2020Albena Azmanova’s latest book invites to re-interpret the history of modern capitalism, and to analyse its crises and resilence under new light.
- Marina Forti 17 March 2020Mistakes, delays and a serious shortage of medecines and medical equipment are threatening Iran’s capacity to contain the deadly spread of Covid-19
- Seán Golden 20 January 2020As Beijing grows increasingly assertive in world affairs, two peripherical territories expose its legitimacy dilemma. But the Western liberal democratic model is equally in crisis, prof. Seán Golden argues.
- Pei Wang 3 January 2019The practice of toleration with the attitude of tolerance. Interview with Pei Wang from Tsinghua University.
- Tom Harper 11 December 2018China is building its influence in a region that has traditionally been dominated by the US.
- 22 May 2013In the world there are four and only four great powers. They are China, the EU, Russia, and the USA. Beyond the traditional economic and military capabilities, what makes an important power a great power is, arguably, its ability to project a world vision. A precondition for this is the ability to formulate a master frame of world order. I claim that, as of today, only four great powers have developed a fairly sophisticated model of world order and have attempted, with a certain degree of success, to spread its content worldwide so to make their national normative projection global.
