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“Global governance is a mirage” – interview with Wolfgang Streeck
On the 19th of May, professor Wolfgang Streeck (Emeritus Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung) was one of the guests at the “Sovereignty and State Systems after Globalism” together with professor Beverly Silver (Ciampi Visiting Scholar from Johns Hopkins University). Two different views and diagnoses of the deep crisis the…
Read moreOlivier Fillieule: France, from the society of movements to the repression of protest
France, from the society of movements to the repression of protest Olivier Filleule presents his research on French movements and police, a point of view that helps explain the country's political crisis Olivier Fillieule studies and researches social movements and street dynamics in the field, the interactions between police and…
Read moreWork and unionization in the platform economy – an interview with Sarrah Kassem
What are the conditions of workers in the platform economy, what happens beyond the interface? Sarrah Kassem, lecturer at the Tubingen University who will join Scuola Normale Superiore in the coming months has researched and written on the issue. Kassem was a guest at the Istituto Ciampi’s conference “The impact…
Read moreUS isolationism and international projection, between dollar rhetoric and armaments. Interview with Mario del Pero
Historian Mario Del Pero on Trumpism and the rift generated by the Iraq war and the 2008 financial crisis. Trumpism and its ability to generate consensus in American society have deep roots, and they are also closely related to the role the United States have played in the world, its…
Read moreIs US democracy likely to change with the second Trump presidency? A conversation with Nadia Urbinati
How much and how is US democracy likely to change during the second Trump presidency? What is new compared to 2016? We asked Nadia Urbinati, visiting scholar at the Ciampi Institute and professor of political science at Columbia University, whom we met after a discussion at the same institute in…
Read moreDoug McAdam (Stanford): “Trump is the effect, not the cause of polarization. His support is based on the racial issue, never resolved.”
The US presidential campaign was the umpteenth representation of a divided society and politics that has never been sopolarised. Donald Trump's third candidacy and the tones he used in the last weeks before the vote are a sign of a situationthat is unlikely to return to calm with the vote.…
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