Overseas
Perspectives
by Sandra Giovanna Giacomazzi
A
selection of articles since 1995. Come back to read more.
This
area will always be under construction as I load old and new pieces.
West
should
be concerned about Turkey’s troubles (March 1995)
A
negative
reaction to affirmative action (June 1995)
Why
don't
cookies
crumble anymore? (September 1995)
Life on
an
isola
doesn’t necessarily have to be isolated (July 1995)
New
French government wastes no time to take action (July 1995)
New Business:
Tourist
snipers
in Sarajevo (August 1995)
The Arborium of Italian
Party
Politics (October
1995)
Italian Politics:
Everything
remains the same (October 1995)
The
Illegitimacy
of Dini's government (October 1995)
Falling
of
the Italian
government: Not just another crisis (November 1995)
Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar
al-Sadat:
Parallel lives (November 1995)
The
role
of the press in America's isolationism (January 1996)
Perennial
resignations
of Italian Premier Dini (January 1996)
Bribery is
an
everyday
affair in Italy (February 1996)
A crisis is an
ordinary
state of affairs (March 1996)
President Scalfaro
visits
President Clinton (April 1996)
The
Italian
elections...finally! (April 1996)
The use and abuse of
Mafia informers (April
1996)
The
Italian
elections: A communist victory (May 1996)
To copy or not to
learn
that
is the Chinese question (June 1996)
The Cuban Embargo as
the
Mother
of Invention (July 1996)
Airplane
accidents:
Waiting
for explanations (August 1996)
Korean
Unification: An expensive dream (August 1996)
La
Padania: Mythical Republic of Northern Italy (September 1996 )
In
pursuit of International Transparency (January 1997)
Rumanian
president
seeks more than "capital of sympathy" (February 1997)
Embracing
Qadaffi
(March 1997)
The
Eulogy
of
European Unity (April 1997)
Albania:
The counter-current of the Balkans (May 1997)
British
and French elections: Is Europe going left? (June 1997)
New
Italian fiscal policy: the wealth meter (June 1997)
What is so almighty
about the
dollar? (August 1997)
If Princess Diana
could
come
back…(September 1997)
The Nobel court awards a
jester
(October
1997)
Saddam Hussein and
Fausto
Bertinotti
(November 1997)
The Peacemaker:
going
after
the loose nukes (December 1997)
Sexygate and the new
amendment
(Persecution
of a President 1) (February 1998)
U.S. interest in the Kosovo
(March 1998)
America at center
stage
in the
European press (April 1998)
False Equations (May
1998)
A questionable
question
of justice (June
1998)
Soccer more than just a
game (July
1998)
America’s
Marco
Polo (July 1998)
This
is no
cherry tree (Persecution of a President 2) (September
1998)
Maybe
it’s time for another Tea Party (Persecution of a President 3) (October
1998)
German
elections: Talk about a kitchen cabinet! (October 1998)
In
pursuit of
former dictators (November 1998)
PKK
leader
Abdullah
Ocalan: Another international imbroglio (November 1998)
In
search of
a democracy where the people are sovereign (Persecution of a President
4) (December 1998)
Fin de siècle
fever
of remorse
(January 1999)
Captured Abdullah
Ocalan: The
most unwanted wanted man (February 1999)
Yeltsin under
fire
(March
1999)
Waiting for Nato
(March
1999)
NATO
deconstructs
the sovereign
state (April 1999)
Manna for Milosevic
(May
1999)
European
elections
ruffle
the feathers of ruling governments (June 1999)
Equating East Timor with
Kosovo (September
1999)
The two faces of the
Chinese
Revolution (October 1999)
Italy according
to
William
Pfaff? Don't buy it! (December 1999)
What
Europe can learn from the Spanish elections (March 2000)
The
Earth
Day cry of a Serbian ecologist: Poisoned body and soul (April
2000)
Austria
– When democracy is abolished in the name of democracy (May 2000)
The
revolutionary Mexican elections (July 2000)
Putin’s
grand entrance at Okinawa (August 2000)
Putin sinks his own ship
(August
2000)
Yugoslavian
elections: Normality or the deluge? (September 2000)
What
now in Yugoslavia? Post-election ambiguity (October 2000)
Much
ado about a lot (US Elections) November 2000)
All
is well that ends at all? (US Elections) (November 2000)
EU
Summit:
Not so nice at Nice (December 2000)
Something
is rotten in the state of America (US Elections) (December 2000)
Last
nail in the coffin (US Elections) (January 2001)
Delusions
of former dictators: from an interview with Milosevic (February
2001)
War
criminals: Quid pro quo? (February 2001)
The
disharmony of Bush's foreign policy team (March 2001)
Heated
reactions to Bush's cold shoulder to global warming (April 2001)
Bush
reverses thirty years of China policy: Reconciliation to rivalry (April
2001)
Bush
handling of the China crisis: Praise prevails in the foreign
press
(April 2001)
Restoring
Democracy to Italy (May 2001)
How
could the Italians vote for such a monster? (June 2001)
US
European relations: Convergence or Divergence? (June 2001)
At
home with
the enemy (September 2001)
War
Unites Americans, Divides Italians (November 2001)
No
Eulogy
for the Euro (December 2001)
Anti-Americanismo
Gramsci Style (January 2002)
A
March for
Two Cities (April 2002)
The
Jews
and the Left and the “but” of circumstance (May 2002)
Berlusconi’s
pivotal role in the NATO/Russia accord (June 2002)
The
Nobel
Peace Prize for Wishful Thinking (December 2002)
Perez:
Iraq and the schizophrenia of the European Left (December 2002)
The
Failure
of Fiat: Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold (January 2003)
A
story like too many stories (January 2003)
European
sentiment on the space shuttle (February 2003)
A
preventative peace for a postponed war (March 2003)
French
anomalies (March 2003)
The
seven
sisters were cousins (March 2003)
History
made
of "ifs" (April 2003)
I
have
a dream...(April 2003)
Teacher/student
war correspondence (April 2003)
The
gift of the mothers of American (April 2003)
The
warmonger pacifists (April 2003)
War
is
no video game. (April 2003)
Ooooooh,
she's
got koodies! (May 2003)
A
prayer
for our flag (May 2003)
War
lessons (June 2003)
Depreciating
democracy: a luxury for those who have it (June 2003)
Anti-Yankee
Sentiment of European Intellighensia (July 2003)
Down
with
the UN (July 2003)
An
Iraqi
in Italy (July 2003)
The
new New York state of mind (August 2003)
Telcom
Serbia: What's that? (September 2003)
The
Celtic
tiger is losing its roar (Septemer 2003)
Many
chips on the shoulder of a past civilization (October 2003)
United
Nations: Sixty years of "Broken Promises" (December 2005)
All
those bureaucratic mouths to feed at the UN (December 2005)
Kofi
Annan
loses his cool (January 2006)
Hamas
and the weak points of democracy (January 2006)
The IAEA won the atomic 'pax' prize (January 2006)
Democracy? No, thanks! (February 2006)
Self irony: Another luxury of the West? (February 2006)
Berlusconi addresses Congress (March
2006)
Why Prodi is unfit to govern Italy
(April 2006)
Italians abroad bite the hand that finally fed them
democracy (April 2006)
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