Global Trends 2030: alternative worlds

Among the main topics of this issue, the editorial on the United State of Europe. A contribution of Marco Marazzi on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement: The Value of Collective Bargaining. The article of Charles Stagnaro dedicated to Enrico Mattei and the history of the Italian energy policy. The Interview with Laura Fincato on Venice city of water, trade and international culture. The interesting articles of Ennio Savi on the future of spaceflight and Roberto Scottini on digital shopping. The meeting with the artistic genius of Fabio Mingarelli. The article by Filippo Caprioglio on "Teaching architecture in America." Marco Hubert Campigotto on The American cemeteries in Florence and Naples as a tangible remembrance of the Second World War. Then let us remember, the contributions of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Calandra Institute, the partnership (and friendship) with Maurizio Molinari, La Stampa U.S. and, finally, the widely read column "A Glance at the World" by Arduino Paniccia, economic and military strategy expert and professor at the University of Trieste and Udine in which it supports the revival of the strategic alliance with the U.S..

Happy Reading.

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In this issue, the cover is dedicated to "Global Trends: Alternative Worlds".  What will happen in the next 20 years? It is a question that many are asking, especially after the economic and financial crisis of 2008 that has devastated many countries: Will the West stand up or will be overtaken by new powers, especially by China? These and other issues were the subject of the report that every four years is submitted by the Intelligence Community to the new American president of the United States, in order to provide a forecast of the global strategic trends of the next 15 years.

ATLANTIS: Welcome 2013, Year of Italian Culture in the USA!

In this issue, the cover is dedicated to "2013, the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S.". Marco Hubert Campigotto anticipates the big event in September: the first biennial Focus on Food Culture and Nutrition, which is organized by ATLANTIS and supported by the City of Venice and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). Among other topics, the editorial Stop the Decline; interview with Prof. Bruno Dallago, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology of Trento and Professor of Economic Policy, which paints a lucid picture of the Italian and European crisis; a nice article on Columbus Day by Agostino Buda; the continuation of the partnership (and friendship) with Maurizio Molinari, La Stampa U.S., through the column "View From New York"; the delightful article about distortions of Italian cuisine and the one Dedicated to The Italians of Staten Island (and not only) by Rossana Del Zio; the piece of Anthony Julian Tamburri (Calandra Institute) on Italian-American State of Mind; Giovanni Caprioglio with the "The Island that there is"; the contribution of architects Federica Del Piccolo and Paul Michieletto; "View From Italy to The World", the column of Arduino Paniccia, economic and military strategy expert and professor at the University of Trieste and Udine; many other articles complete this unmissable Christmas issue.

Happy Reading.

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Cover: 2013 Year of Italian Culture in USA

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched "Destination Italy: Discovery and Innovation", many events to be held in 2013 throughout the United States of America. Atlantis and ME Publisher will give their contribution with the first edition of the first biennial Focus on Food Culture and Nutrition to be held in New York on 25 and 26 September 2013. As part of this event will also feature exhibitions dedicated to the ancient documents of the State Archives of Venice and (thanks to the Civic Museums) to the Venetian landscape painters. The Focus has been officially "adopted" by the city of Venice through the Expo Venice Commettee.

In this issue, among other topics, a interview to Kyle R. Scott General Consulate Usa of Milan; a discussion about tourism and  environment by Roberto Fini, Professor of Economics at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice and Stefania Schipani Professor of Environmental Economy at the University Tor Vergata of Rome, the perpetual of a partnership (and friendship) with Maurizio Molinari, La Stampa, with the column "A View From New York"; the article The Middleman in the Ameritalia by Rossana Dal Zio, Queens University of Ny on Italian American identity; the pieces of the Architects Michieletto-Del Piccolo and the work; the beginning of a new column “A View From The World” with Arduino Paniccia Professor of Economic and Military Strategy at University of Trieste and Udine; the piece of Alessandro Serena, Professor of History of Circus at Public University of Milan about the clown David Larible and the interview of Carlo Mazzanti to Pasquale Nestico founder of Filitalia International at Philadelphia.

Happy reading.

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Cover: Who’s killing the Middle Class?

The debate rages on both sides of the Atlantic. The middle class is the most affected by the crisis. For some it is even dead or about to die. But who is the killer? The answer, tranchant, is in a few lines written by the master of liberalism, Nicola Matteucci in 2006 (far from the beginning of the crisis).

"Alexis de Tocqueville saw that the (American) democracy was founded in the middle class, excluding the old and the new aristocracy represented by the class of industrialists. So Gaetano Mosca saw that a parliamentary government should have been based on the middle class. The (Italian) government in his action wanted to kill the middle class to establish a Peronist populist government in the sense of the term: Peronist and justicialist. There are poor people and there is no middle class. The protagonists are the unions not the parties that (the Prime Minister) does not like. Very rich people of big business will be save, not the small and medium enterprises that belong to the middle class…" Question: Who was in government in Italy in 2006?

The Leviathan

In this issue, among other topics, a discussion about Megalopolis by Roberto Fini, Professor of Economics at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice and an interview with Cesare De Michelis, the beginning of a partnership (and friendship) with Maurizio Molinari, La Stampa, with the column "A View From New York", a piece of Alessandro Marzo Magno on his "L'Alba dei Libri", the article by Fred L. Gardaphe, Queens University of Ny on Italian American identity, the pieces of the Architects Giovanni Caprioglio and Michieletto-Del Piccolo and the work of Robert Vecchiato on the Pharmacy in the Republic of Venice and the ancient remedy of Teriaca.

Happy reading.

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Cover: The Leviathan

The Leviathan devours its children ... The Leviathan is always greedy. And it coaxes its children making them believe that it is essential to their welfare and their health. There is no possibility to coexist with the Leviathan, if we want to be free, if we want a society which rewards and respects every single person as much as possible, if we want to be the ones who decide their destiny, how to live and how to die, then let’s kill the Leviathan before it kill us. If to do this we even do have to fight against those who - our fellow men and its children – stand up for it because they do not know no other way to live, then we will fight. And even when we will have fought, won and killed the Leviathan, we must ever be watchful and mindful so that in future our children and the children of our children will not have to do the same.