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1. Europe needs initiative and leadership to overcome the crisis
(Roberto Castaldi/Editorial)

This paper applies the interpretative scheme “crisis-initiative-leadership” - developed with reference to the European unification process as a whole – to the current crises to analyse if and how the ...

2. EU’s Projection of Security Peace Missions as a Tool either for Fusion or Fragmentation
(Gianni Bonvicini/Essay)

If one looks at the rapid growth of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) since the Blair-Chirac meeting of Saint-Malo in 1998 and in particular at the launch of several crisis management missions ...

3. Redefining a Nation: The Conflict of Identity and Federalism in Iraq
(Harith Al-Qarawee/note)

... as a way to face the inherent crisis in modern Iraq resulting from the lack of a political system through which power could be distributed and the peculiarities of different ethno-sectarian communities ...

4. Global Imbalances and the Transition to a Symmetric World Monetary System
(Riccardo Fiorentini/Essay)

This article investigates some of the causes of the financial crisis – global imbalances and unsatisfactory regulation of world liquidity – and supports the need to reform the present asymmetric international ...

5. Which European Response to the Financial Crisis?
(Guido Montani/Essay)

The reaction of the European Union to the financial crisis consisted mainly in uncoordinated national plans. A real European recovery plan would have been more effective, but it was not possible because ...