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Italy's tragic future 4 Sep 2009 | 08:48 pm
Silvio Berlusconi is a modern dictator. He controls all the most important functions of the state and is THE key player in the private sphere. Modern dictators are characterized by an ability to disgu...
No to Barroso 2 Sep 2009 | 09:20 pm
Does anyone out there know who Barroso is? More importantly does anybody know what was his best achievement during his four years as President of the European Commission, the highest institution withi...
Obama's Transatlantic Speech 25 Jul 2008 | 10:21 pm
Berlin was like a honeymoon between America and Europe. But Obama's honey words, were a little too sweet: That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no...
Constitutional Dilemmas: NOW available in paperback 1 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Constitutional-Dilemmas-Conflicts-Fundamental-Rights/dp/0199552185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203439587&sr=1-1
ITALY: the neverending crisis 29 Jan 2008 | 06:19 am
Italy is once again in trouble. After Prodi's descent to hell, with the crisis of his government, we are now deciding on what to do. Here we face a dilemma: either we do the impossible, that is bring ...
Secular Europe? Think twice 23 Dec 2007 | 01:51 am
On 21st of Dember, Tony Blair converted to Catholicism: see here; On the same day, Sarkozy held a speech in front of the Catholic bishops in Rome arguing that religion should play a more important ro...
The Still Born God 15 Dec 2007 | 06:03 am
is a great new book on religion and politics in the West. Its author, Mark Lilla, is a fantastic scholar in the history of ideas. The book argues that the West (Europe) was marked by a Great Separat...
Peace studies in Spain and Latinamerica 24 Nov 2007 | 07:50 am
I have recently been teaching a master course on Development and Human Rights at the International Master on Peace Conflict and Development in Castellon, University Jaume I. During my stay in Castelló...
Berlusconi launches a new Party 19 Nov 2007 | 10:04 am
Changer tout, pour ne changer rien. To Change everything in order to change nothing. This is sometimes used to describe the French revolution, but it would apply equally well to Italy in the last few...
A Secular Age 5 Nov 2007 | 11:49 pm
For all of you who are interested in issues of law, religion and politics in the Transatlantic world (and beyond)., I can warmly recommend Charles Taylor's new book 'A secular age.' Taylor distinguis...
