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Category Archives: Roberto Orsi
Jun 15 2015
The Politics of the Humanitarian Crisis in Europe
4 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi One of the greatest moral achievements of the ancient world has been the enshrinement of a solidarity principle for the fellow human in distress, which finds perhaps its highest formulation in the evangelical parable of the “good … Continue reading
Posted by: June 15, 2015
Tagged with: EU, humanitarianism, migrants
Apr 3 2015
The Ukrainian Crisis: A Year On
Comments Off on The Ukrainian Crisis: A Year OnBy Roberto Orsi More than a year has gone by since the overthrowal of Viktor Yanukovich, the starting point of a severe international crisis between Moscow and the West, successively escalated by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the outbreak of … Continue reading
Posted by: April 3, 2015
Tagged with: Bundeswehr, Crimea, Donbass War, EU army, Jean-Claude Juncker, Minsk 2
Jan 20 2015
Europe’s Future and Jihad
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Recent events in Paris have been commented upon by political leaders and public intellectuals alike with the recurring argument that France will emerge stronger from this incident. Countless other commentators have repeated that the ideas of an … Continue reading
Posted by: January 20, 2015
Tagged with: Charlie Hebdo, Crisis, Decline of Europe, demography of Europe, immigration, Islam, Jihad
Oct 1 2014
Why Italy Will Not Make It
17 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Three articles by prestigious commentators (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Roger Bootle for The Telegraph, Wolfgang Münchau for Financial Times) have recently appeared in the financial press about the economic situation of Italy and the (in)stability of its national … Continue reading
Posted by: October 1, 2014
Tagged with: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, austerity, Decline of Europe, default, ECB, Eurozone architecture, Eurozone crisis, Financial Times, German Constitutional Court, Implosion, Italian economy, Italian public debt, Maastricht, Mario Draghi, Neo-Keynesian policies, Neoliberalism, Reforms in Italy, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph, Wolfgang Münchau
Sep 9 2014
A Few Reflections on the Demonisation of Putin
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Henry Kissinger once declared that “Putin’s demonisation is not a policy, but an alibi for the absence of one”. However authoritative the source of this recommendation, the collective fixation with the Russian President has reached new heights … Continue reading
Posted by: September 9, 2014
Tagged with: agonistic politics, Antichrist, decapitation strike, Devil, Evil, hate, hatred, Hitler, Kant, NATO, Perfetual Peace, Putin, Russian Politics, tyrannicide, Ukraine, warfare, WWIII
May 30 2014
Beppe Grillo’s Bitter Moment of Truth
8 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi The European election results in Italy have been rather surprising. In the context of today’s three-party political landscape (the centre-left Democratic Party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement, and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia), most pre-vote polls indicated a rise … Continue reading
Posted by: May 30, 2014
Tagged with: Election, Euro, European Elections 2014, European Union, Euroscepticism, Grillo, Italy, Renzi
May 12 2014
The Irreversible Crisis of the Ukrainian Experiment
14 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi The ongoing crisis in the Ukraine may be analysed under a series of different perspectives, each yielding narratives belonging to different genres: is this a crisis in military relations? Is this the product of peculiar psychological settings … Continue reading
Posted by: May 12, 2014
Tagged with: EU Association Agreement, protests, sovereignty
Dec 10 2013
Democracy Nomen Nudum
5 CommentsBy Xavier Guillaume, Roberto Orsi and Vassilios Paipais The Eurozone crisis is much more than a sheer fiscal problem plaguing a number of countries in the South of the continent. It is rather a symptom of a diseased situation that … Continue reading
Posted by: December 10, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, deindustrialisation, Democracy, elites, governmentality, Monetary Policy, technocrats
Oct 8 2013
The Demise of Italy and the Rise of Chaos
249 Commentsby Roberto Orsi Future historians will probably regard Italy as the perfect showcase of a country which has managed to sink from the position of a prosperous, leading industrial nation just two decades ago to a condition of unchallenged economic … Continue reading
Posted by: October 8, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, brain drain, Corruption, mismanagement
Aug 20 2013
Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the Press
Comments Off on Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the PressBy the Editorial Team The Euro Crisis in the Press blog began as part of a wider LSE-based research project on media representations of the Euro crisis across European states. The aim of the blog has been to provide a … Continue reading
Posted by: August 20, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, Blame, blog highlights, Crisis, Cyprus, European identity, European Public Sphere, European Union, Eurozone crisis, Freedom of the press, Journalism, media, Media Systems, Public Sphere