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A Literary Fascination with China: Three Contemporary Novels by 'Foreign' Writers.
2019
L'articolo prende in considerazione opere di tre autori, due australiani, Nicholas Jose e Gail Jones, e uno italiano, Isaia Iannaccone, i quali, secondo una tendenza oggi piuttosto diffusa, presentano forti collegamenti con la Cina. The paper is about a contemporary tendency among writers from non-Chinese countries to write novels that present deep connections with China. The authors taken into consideration are from Australia: Nicholas Jose and Gail Jones, and from Italy: Isaia Iannaccone.
Re-thinking Nicholas J. Spykman : from historical sociology to balance of power
2020
This article examines Nicholas J. Spykman’s scholarship beyond geopolitics and International Relations (IR). Because his works have mainly been studied through these prisms, I argue that we have overlooked the most important underlying current of his work: historical sociology. As a result, the prevailing view of him is overtly narrow. When Spykman’s scholarly output is examined from the 1920s to 1940s, an entirely different view of Spykman emerges. Essentially, his fundamental understanding of world affairs derived from the German sociologist Georg Simmel’s theories. In the 1920s and 1930s, Spykman transmuted these underpinnings into IR that later in the 1940s guided his two major works: A…