Articoli
WORLD MIRROR AT BIENNALE
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Culture
Every city should have an exhibition representing main countries in the world. Can be an Expo like that normally done in one different place every year, or a more specialised one like Biennale in Venice. We talk about globalisation, but we don’t give concrete tools to people to document theirselves on the planet life in […] Read more
BRICS WORLD LEADERSHIP? WAIT A MINUTE.
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Six new countries will join BRICS (Brazil,Russia,India,China,South Africa) from 2024/1/1, i.e. Argentina,Egypt,Ethiopia,Iran,Saudi Arabia, Emirates, and everyone is very impressed, growing total GDP from 25% to 36% of total world and being population about 4 billion, versus 800 million of G7, which produces about 46% of world GDP (105 trillion$). By the way I know personally […] Read more
GLOBAL SOUTH AFRICA
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
My personal relationship with South Africa has been of well being and peace, as soon I disembarked from the plane in Johannesburg at the middle of 80ties, having my clock the same time of Milan, and the same day. The special light, the dry climate always spring type, the flowers, the immensity of horizons, the […] Read more
KISSINGER – FUKUYAMA 5-0? NOT FAIR
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
I remember the climate of 1992, end of SSSR in 1989, Western triumph, American hegemony not discussed, peace dividend, stop to weapon and so on. As for an instant book, Francis Fukuyama at age of 40, wrote a nice academic book with a fascinating title “The end of history and the last man”, suddenly becoming […] Read more
Science for Latvia, Latvia for Science
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Culture
‘Value through knowledge’ is the motto underlying the Congress of these days in Riga, where Latvian scientists have convened to discuss the status of Science in the country in a EU and worldwide perspective. The Baltic culture leadership in R&D areas in the EU is well known. Notwithstanding their size the three Baltic in only […] Read more
CHINA-USA :A BICEPHALIC GLOBALISATION?
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Historically we had until now two wave of globalisation: In the last ten years everyone is expecting a third wave of globalisation China driven, the opposition should come from USA and ,from the Cuba war, Americans had always used war as a political strategy to keep on their hegemony. So the most probable USA reaction […] Read more
NAVIGATING ARCTIC OCEAN
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Logistica
For forty years I tried to look at Logistics as a Strategic asset and wrote quite 400 articles to give to top managers the feeling of the importance of what they thought only regarding warehouses and cost of transport to minimise. Now with war, supply chain disruption and enormous Chinese investments on the new silk […] Read more
“STANS” GEOPOLITICAL ROLE AS A STRATEGIC KEY
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Walking through the streets of Xian you walk in true historical context, as we European immagine about China. Enormous walls surrounding the big squared city, large like modern highways, very Chinese traditional urban structure, similar by the way to old Roman one, impressive stone doors with monster guardians, in a region of majestic king tombs, […] Read more
ARCTIC ROUTE IMPACT ON BALTIC LOGISTICS
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Logistica
Light is beautiful in Kirkenes bay, but more interesting the small Museum of this Norwegian small city on Barents Sea. You can look at history of this area during the second world war, when 100000 German troops were disembarking for occupying the iron mining rich asset of the city, which was totally destroyed. Being at […] Read more
Myanmar Chinese strategic door
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Of all my world travels, never I was so relaxed, quiet and near to full happiness then travelling in Myanmar. The thousands of gold painted pagodas, already welcoming you from the plane view, the magnificent river Irrawaddy, flowing as a majestic aristocrat through a spectacular nature for 2200km full of ships, the romantic lakes, everything […] Read more
