What agitates American society?
What is going on in the depths of the United States, an increasingly divided country, in which increasingly irreconcilable trends seem to emerge and assert themselves? Here are the themes and authors of “Destino americano”, the new issue of the periodical leSfide
It opens a long conversation between director Enrico Landoni and Federico Rampini, who analyzes America and the "Americas" of today, from the bipolarized world to the trauma of 11 September. Until our days of war of Russia to Ukraine. In the meantime, the internal tendency in the USA, which had already begun in the 1960s, Rampini recalls, of the clash over "rights and questions of values" remains and grows. He closes a far-sighted speech, still largely unknown, with words of extraordinary relevance by Bettino Craxi, premier in the USA in 1983, to receive an honorary degree from Brown University.
Craxi, the new leader of the PSI and the first socialist premier, ended his party's neutrality in the US. The installation of Euromissiles in Comiso is the milestone. However, Craxi in his speech is original, as will be all his foreign policy which made Italy, firmly anchored in the Atlantic Alliance, the protagonist. That premier exalted the profound unity of Italy-USA, in the name of the value of freedom. But he looked far, he spoke of "peace for all and security for each", freedom in justice with an emphasis on the rift between the North and South of the world. And the value of peace but in security, in which a stronger neighbor cannot invade the borders of others. It was 1983.
American destiny – Internal polarization and global projection is the title of the new issue of leSfide – There is no future without memory , a free periodical of studies, in-depth analysis and reflection (digital and paper), published by the Craxi ETS Foundation. Also available for reading in the digital version www.leSfide.org , the volume addresses crucial questions through numerous essays. What agitates American society? What is going on in the depths of an increasingly divided country, in which increasingly irreconcilable trends seem to emerge and assert themselves? How to read the new phenomena that cross far and wide a reality called to face the complex and articulated global challenges, aimed at questioning its supremacy? But, above all, when and how did these phenomena originate?
The monographic section of the volume, centered entirely on the United States and which tries to answer these questions with a mix of historical-scientific reflections and analysis, opens with a long 'Conversation' with Federico Rampini, which goes to the origin of the phenomena taking place. He crosses them into the historical context in which they are born and develop, thus reconstructing the roots of polarization and going back to the causes that led to the formation of more 'Americas'.
The section continues with an essay by Luigi Curini on affective polarization in American society. Then, a reasoning on the new international dynamics within which the United States moves, by Gianni Castellaneta, former Italian ambassador in Washington. There is an essay on the technological challenges to American primacy by Alessandro Aresu , while Daniele Fiorentino delves into the international effects of the American mosaic. Part of the section is then dedicated to the effects of polarization on the political and institutional framework, with Alessia De Luca who talks about Midterm America, Sofia Eliodori and Alia K. Nardini who analyze the fractures within the two sides, and concludes with a long historical essay by Lucrezia Luci on the relationship between Italy and the United States.
The American continent is at the center of "Letters from the world", with two interventions by Massimo De Giuseppe and Gianni La Bella that recount the past and recent dynamics of Latin America. The section is enriched by the analysis of internal fractures in Turkey by Alessia Chiriatti and the reconstruction of the epoch-making agreement between Lebanon and Israel by Alessandro Dessì. In "Letters from History" Umberto Tulli and Giordana Pulcini accompany the past to the "discovery" of two presidents: Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. The issue, in a sort of temporal reference, is then embellished in the "Memory and Archive" section by Bettino Craxi's contribution on the values that link the two sides of the Atlantic. A discourse contextualized by a historical-introductory note from the director of the magazine, the historian Enrico Landoni.
Then, the community themes at the center of the "Italy – Europe" section with the works of Roberto Cellini and Federico Niglia who respectively focus on the reform of the governance of the European Union and on Italian-German relations, while Domenico Maria Bruni and General Giuseppe Morabito address in the section "Letters from Europe", respectively the theme of British instability and the dynamics affecting the region of the Western Balkans.
Finally, the 'Scenarios' section addresses the issues of technological development and its geopolitical implications with an essay by Paolo Savona. The theme of the environment is then explored from a philosophical perspective with Benedetto Ippolito . The section concludes with an analysis by Diletta Porcheddu on the role of international bodies in regulating global trade.
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