Reading time: 3 minutes History is never dead; every day we walk among the machinations and designs of those before us. Some historical persons had larger impacts than others, and for Milan, those persons [ … ]
Category: Columns
The Geopolitics of Standardisation
Reading time: 6 minutes In October 2021, the State Council of China unveiled a new strategy to influence international standardisation practices. Leveraging modern technology and the Belt and Road initiative, China is attempting to turn [ … ]
Blinded by Light
Reading time: 3 minutes Fyodor Dostoevsky famously noted in The Idiot that “beauty will save the world.” In the two years that have upended people’s lives as they used to be and reminded everyone [ … ]
Long Live the Freedom of Art!
Reading time: 4 minutes War has befallen Europe – and besides comprehensive political responses of European leaders, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has left deep scars on the European landscape of classical music. From [ … ]
Monday Briefing 09/05/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes For the last edition of the semester, the Monday Briefing takes us to the US, where a historic sentence regulating abortion is reportedly about to be overturned by the Supreme [ … ]
Lehman Brothers, Volume I
Reading time: 4 minutes More than a decade has passed since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, which marked the end of what academics worldwide defined as the Great Moderation period. But why did it happen? [ … ]
“Conspiracy” or “Intervention”: Regime Change in Pakistan and the Diplomatic Future
Reading time: 5 minutes By Ali Aun While it was the first time ever in Pakistan’s history that a prime minister was removed through a vote of no-confidence, possibly signaling a strengthening of democratic [ … ]
Artivismo: quando l’arte si fa politica
Reading time: 5 minutes Quando si unisce la ragion poetica alla ragion civile nasce una nuova forma di arte politica: l’Artivismo. Gli artivisti si interrogano sulle più importanti emergenze del nostro tempo e si [ … ]
Monday Briefing 02/05/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes As the semester is going towards the end and the exam session is approaching, this edition of the Monday Briefing takes us first to Myanmar, where a new sentence of [ … ]
Duterte’s Legacy: the War on Drugs and Gloomy Presidential Election
Reading time: 7 minutes Right after winning the 2016 presidential election of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte announced his plans to launch a War on Drugs that the country hadn’t seen before. From allowing all [ … ]