Daniele Archibugi is director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), affiliated to the Institute on Population and Social Policy (IRPPS), and professor of innovation, governance and public policy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His website is here.

Recent articles

Daniele Archibugi comments on Leeson's view of the economic rationality of pirates.

Can the multiplicity of languages explain the low interest of the European people for the European Parliament? Would a single official language increase the relevance of the European Parliament?

The Gulf of Aden is becoming increasingly crowded. Due to the several million paid in ransom over the last twenty four months, and to the persisting chronic poverty in Somalia, the number of individuals who have turned to piracy has increased, and they seem to be more desperate and less experienced than the previous ones. In the first quarter of 2009, the number of attacks on ships has in fact doubled, according to the International Maritime Bureau ( see IMB, Piracy attacks almost doubled in 2009 first quarter, 21 April 2009).