Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order
This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Mid
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Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order
Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order
Giulio Sapelli
Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order
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Giulio Sapelli University of Milan and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Milan Italy Translated from Italian language edition Published by Guerrini e Associati: “Dove va il mondo?” © 2014 Translation by Juliet Haydock. Footnotes by Barbara Racah.
ISBN 978-3-319-15623-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15624-8
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Acknowledgments
This perhaps somewhat over-ambitious reflection owes much to a think tank that has grown up in a cultural and spiritual setting that is extremely unusual in Italy: the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. It naturally reflects my own thoughts and not those of the Foundation, though without the decision taken by the Foundation Board of Directors to begin work on a new research programme (“Economy and society”), which I led for a few months during its start-up, this book would never have seen the light of day. I am therefore grateful to Paolo Scaroni, President of the Foundation and Giuseppe Sammarco, its Director, who have given me their unflagging trust and encouragement. I would nevertheless certainly not have written these pages had it not been for the decisive encouragement that Joaquín Navarro Valls, who read the first draft of the programme, gave me to expand it into a much longer essay. Luca Farinola was the first to read the work and gave me inestimable advice, as did Daniele Atzori with his great scientific experience, no
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