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Spatial fragmentation of, and US support for, the main multilateral institutions of the western order
2017
The growth of China-led minilateral initiatives mostly of a regional character has challenged the main multilateral institutions of the Western order and, ultimately, US authority. Faced with a progressive delegitimation of the institutional architecture that it promoted after World War II, the US, under the Obama administration, has acted to defend the existing main multilateral institutions of the order (UN, IMF, WB and WTO), attributing them with a strategic role. More than being radical, though, the reforms enacted have been incremental and pragmatic, but always imperfect. More importantly, they have not altered US influence, which is exercised mostly through informal means. This, howev…
Un mondo senza confini, un potere senza limiti. Temi e retoriche identitarie dell’«eccezionalismo» ateniese
2022
Partendo dalla categoria politica di “eccezionalismo”, che è stata utilizzata per descrivere la politica estera degli Stati Uniti, soprattutto nel XX secolo, questo paper propone una analisi comparata con la politica ateniese di V secolo, soprattutto durante il suo impero marittimo: in tale contesto la nozione di “eccezionalismo” sembra adatta per comprendere alcuni aspetti della sua politica e i rapporti tra “eccezionalismo” e democrazia. Starting with the political category of 'exceptionalism', which has been used to describe US foreign policy, especially in the 20th century, this paper proposes a comparative analysis with 5th century Athenian policy, especially during its maritime empire…