Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history,” prophesied in the final stretch of the twentieth century, now seems to have reversed itself — by a paradoxical twist of fate — into its very opposite. We feel surrounded by unrelenting conflicts, a sensation compounded by a “globalized” world that delivers news in real time and appears to erase every distance, physical and psychological alike. Our era exists in a permanent state of crisis — whether economic, social, political, strategic, military, or humanitarian in nature. ...

Geopolitics Today is a political news website that embraces a wide diversity of opinions and perspectives. Its aim is to shed some light on issues that, at least from the standpoint of mainstream media, have too often been left in the shadows. The Founders Alessandro GIACONE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna and a specialist in European integration and contemporary Italian history. ...