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This is war! The Polish Abortion Law
Reading time: 4 minutes For fourteen nights after the High Court’s ruling, Poles have been marching on the streets to protest against the new abortion law, making terminations due to fetus abnormalities unconstitutional. Poland has then decided [ … ]
The Backlash Against Gender Studies
Reading time: 6 minutes In the year that marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the most influential book in the history of Gender Studies, the backlash against the ideas that the discipline has advanced [ … ]
Is the storming of the US Capitol the end or the beginning of the political divide in America?
Reading time: 6 minutes January 6th, 2021 is a date that future students of American (and global) history will likely have to remember by heart. It is not “a day that will live in [ … ]
The European approach to US elections
Reading time: 3 minutes Why are Europeans not as concerned by their own elections as they are by American ones? Now that President Biden has been sworn in after tense months, a couple of thoughts – on Europe [ … ]
La comunicazione politica sta cambiando molto in fretta: l’esempio americano
Reading time: 3 minutes Quest’anno abbiamo assistito ad una campagna elettorale per l’elezione del Presidente degli Stati Uniti davvero particolare; infatti, soprattutto nella sua declinazione legata all’uso dei social network, si è potuta notare un’evoluzione considerevole rispetto alle scorse tornate [ … ]
“Howdy Modi” No More?
Reading time: 4 minutes The past, present and future of US-India relations. Modi has used a political style that mirrors that of Donald Trump and that has allowed for India and U.S.A. to be [ … ]
La colonna sonora della criminalità organizzata
Reading time: 4 minutes Nel forte legame tra arte e criminalità organizzata, la musica è una chiave importante. Alcuni generi, come il rap o la musica neomelodica, sono da sempre più vicini al mondo [ … ]
Dynamics of Cyberconflict: A New Era of Political Competition
Reading time: 5 minutes Many claim that we are currently living in the age of the Second Cold War, that we are possibly experiencing a Third World War. Others suggest that we have already [ … ]
Small Country, Big Impact: Parliamentary Election in Lithuania
Reading time: 4 minutes For the past years, a small Baltic state called Lithuania was ruled by conservative coalitions that consistently failed to lead the state to progress and change its stagnant political status [ … ]
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Revenge porn – il reato a cui molti ancora non credono
Reading time: 6 minutes La triste vicenda della maestra d’asilo di Torino ha riacceso l’attenzione sull’argomento del revenge porn. Quello che è indiscutibilmente un comportamento del tutto odioso e meschino, oggi, in seguito all’approvazione [ … ]
Monday Briefing 7/12/2020
Reading time: 6 minutes University News Three BEMACS students – Vittorio Costa, Enrico Giannelli and Aldin Traljic – won the Emea Ibm Call for code 2020: Students vs Climate Change Challenge, in the Water [ … ]
December 2020 Editorial
Reading time: 2 minutes In the past few months, we seemed to live in a time of closure, of national egoism, unprecedented in recent times. Too young to have experienced the ideological-geopolitical clashes of [ … ]