Analisi geopolitiche e relazioni internazionali
When discussing the strategic, operational, and tactical levels, the first mistake to avoid is treating them as three rigidly separated steps in a hierarchy. It is not enough to say that the strategic level is “more important,” the operational level…
When U.S. Sanctions Meet EU Banking Rights: The CJEU’s Judgment in Jenec — Case C-81/24 On 11 June 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Jenec, Case C-81/24, concerning access to basic banking services where a consumer…
This continues from the previous post. Those who do research in a law faculty don’t disappear. But the source of their value changes. The most fragile part of legal research is the part that resembles standardizable informational work: searching for sources,…
What will still matter when intelligence becomes cheap? This is the central question at the heart of the forthcoming volume Messy Jobs by Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu. Much of the debate on artificial intelligence is framed around a simple…
Innovation is not the same thing as invention. Invention produces novelty; innovation transforms novelty into value. That transformation depends on an ecosystem: capital able to finance uncertainty, markets large enough to reward scale, institutions fast enough to enable experimentation, and…
A vocabulary used loosely In contemporary legal and political debate, five expressions are made to carry a great deal of weight and are frequently treated as interchangeable: national interest, national security, essential (or fundamental) security interests of the State, public…
ABSTRACT Strategic analysis keeps failing (Kabul, Kyiv, the late recognition that artillery and industrial capacity would decide the war) not because individuals err but because analytical systems don’t learn. Three interlocking failures explain it. Empirical: the field keeps no score. It rewards visibility…
The European Commission’s new Communication on European Tech Sovereignty marks a significant shift in the EU’s digital policy agenda, and one that I consider among the most consequential of this Commission’s term. The message is clear: Europe can no longer rely primarily…
Governor Fabio Panetta’s “Concluding Remarks,” delivered on 29 May 2026, paint a picture of a surprisingly resilient global economy shaken by a new energy shock — and point to artificial intelligence as the decisive battleground for Italy’s future. Every year,…
Thomas Kuhn changed the way we think about scientific progress, and his framework remains, in my experience, one of the most useful tools for understanding what is happening in international relations and security today. In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Kuhn…
Federico Fubini’s article on Donald Trump’s economic interventionism captures a crucial shift in contemporary capitalism. The phrase “a socialist in the White House” is rhetorically effective, but analytically imprecise — and getting the analysis right matters more than the rhetoric.…
For years, screening foreign investments for security risks was something EU Member States could do but were not required to do. That has now changed. The European Parliament has approved a reform that makes screening mandatory in sensitive sectors —…
What the IAA is After the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Critical Raw Materials Act, and the Chips Act, it would be easy to dismiss the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA, COM(2026) 100 final) as one more entry in an already crowded…
On 30 September 1938, after returning from the Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British public first at Heston Aerodrome and later outside 10 Downing Street, where he declared that he believed it was ‘peace for our time. “This morning…
The adoption of an Italian National Security Strategy, defined by Article 5 of the Prime Ministerial Decree of 22 April 2026, marks a development I consider significant for the Italian security system. For the first time, Italy has a central…
The Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 22 April 2026 establishes the implementing regulation for Article 7-bis, paragraph 5, of Decree-Law No. 174 of 30 October 2015, concerning the management of crisis situations involving aspects of national security.…
The latest judicial setback for presidential tariff power did not come from the Supreme Court — and this is where the story, to me, becomes most interesting. It came from the U.S. Court of International Trade, in a case involving…
Financial markets are neither a casino nor a church — and understanding this is, I am increasingly convinced, essential for anyone who studies international law and national security. They are better understood as a distorted mirror in which human beings…
In the United States, one of the oldest constitutional arguments is also one of the most practical — and, for those of us who study the intersection of constitutional law and security, one of the most instructive: who gets to…
Robert H. Jackson, “The Challenge of International Lawlessness,” American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 27, 1941, pp. 690-693. Writing in 1941 as World War II shattered European order, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson confronts American disillusionment with international law…
At a moment when international law is routinely described as ineffective, selective, or even obsolete, Not Dead Yet – International Law in an Age of Uncertainty offers a deliberately counter-intuitive intervention — one that, as a scholar of international law, I…
The United States supported China’s accession to the WTO primarily because policymakers believed it would advance three interrelated objectives — and understanding what those objectives were helps explain, I think, much of the disillusionment that followed. Yes, there is a…
Critical minerals are no longer a narrow industrial issue. They are a structural component of power — the material foundation of batteries, semiconductors, defence systems, and the energy transition. The Memorandum of Understanding signed on April 24 in Washington by…
According to the paper published in January 2026 by Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Andrea Ferrero, Luca Fornaro, and Martin Wolf, titled Industrial Policies, Global Imbalances and Technological Hegemony, industrial policy is not just about helping domestic firms grow. It can also reshape trade…
Debate over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is often framed too vaguely — and this imprecision, in my view, obscures where the real constitutional problem lies. The standard defense is familiar: the provision authorizes the collection of…
A recent CEPR study “The European Union under pressure? Exploring Chinese trade deflection,” examines a question I consider central to the current EU economic security debate: whether US tariffs on Chinese goods have caused a redirection of Chinese exports toward third…
When the Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs, the immediate question was legal. The next question is practical: what happens to the $160 billion in duties already collected? The United States is now moving into the first operational stage of…
Chiunque studi la sicurezza economica oggi si trova di fronte a una domanda fondamentale: quando l’interdipendenza economica diventa un’arma? “How to Fight an Economic War” di Edward Fishman affronta questa domanda direttamente, offrendo un’analisi lucida di come la globalizzazione si…
Una delle sfide persistenti nello studio della sicurezza internazionale è capire come funzioni realmente l’architettura antiterrorismo delle Nazioni Unite — non in teoria, ma nella rete sovrapposta, talvolta ridondante, di organismi che si è sviluppata dal 2001. Le Nazioni Unite…
Le Conclusioni dell’Avvocato Generale ?apeta nella causa Elisa Eesti (Causa C-354/24) del 19 marzo 2026 sono uno di quei casi che a prima vista appaiono altamente tecnici, quasi di nicchia, e poi improvvisamente si rivelano qualcosa di molto più grande.…
Che cosa succede quando un attacco militare rivela la fragilità dell’intera architettura energetica globale? Il raid congiunto USA-Israele contro l’Iran alla fine di febbraio 2026 ha risposto a questa domanda con scomoda chiarezza: quella che inizialmente appariva come un’escalation militare…
La decisione della Corte Suprema in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (607 U.S. (2026)) affronta una questione al tempo stesso tecnica e profondamente strutturale: può una legge economica d’emergenza essere interpretata come autorizzazione per il Presidente a imporre dazi generalizzati…
Pochi progetti illustrano meglio della Perseus Digital Library cosa accade quando un’autentica ambizione intellettuale incontra la giusta tecnologia al momento giusto. Sviluppata presso la Tufts University, Perseus è uno dei più importanti progetti di umanistica digitale dedicati allo studio del…
La governance dello spazio è una di quelle aree in cui il divario tra capacità tecnica e immaginazione giuridico-istituzionale è più ampio. Il 7 novembre 2025 si è svolto presso l’Università LUISS Guido Carli di Roma il primo SPHERE Space…
Panoramica: La trasformazione del sistema di intelligence tedesco nel 2025 è probabilmente uno dei cambiamenti istituzionali più significativi nella governance della sicurezza europea dalla fine della Guerra Fredda. L’anno 2025 ha portato cambiamenti significativi alla comunità di intelligence della Germania, guidati…
Secondo il Rapporto del 18 dicembre 2025, la Commissione per la sicurezza e la difesa del Parlamento europeo mette sul tavolo una proposizione netta: l’Europa sta entrando in un’epoca in cui i droni non sono una “capacità”, i droni sono…
La questione se il ritiro dalle organizzazioni internazionali rafforzi o indebolisca la sovranità effettiva di uno Stato è tutt’altro che risolta. Il 7 gennaio 2026, la Casa Bianca ha pubblicato un Memorandum Presidenziale che ordina ai dipartimenti e alle agenzie…
Strategy and Grand Strategy di Joshua Rovner offre quello che è, a mio avviso, uno dei quadri analitici più chiari disponibili per comprendere perché gli Stati così spesso non riescono a collegare l’azione militare alla sicurezza di lungo termine. Il…
