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Interviews 08/01/2025

Work 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…

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Interviews 09/12/2024

US 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…

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Interviews 18/11/2024

Is 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…

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Interviews 05/11/2024

Doug 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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Interviews 17/10/2024

A new approach to the history of the EU: Interview with Kiran Klaus Patel

What kind of experiment is the European project? What are its origins and how did it become so important despite the fact that it was one of many international institutions that came into being after the Second World War? The focus of the latest work by historian Kiran Patel, visiting…

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Interviews 15/07/2024

Latin American and European populist right, similarities and differences according to prof. Rovira Kaltwasser

"There has been a lot of discussion and research on the rise of the far-right in Europe and the US. Much less on what happened in Latin America where we thought we were having a total different political landscape. Then Donald Trump's unexpected victory came and someone started watching at…

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