Carlo Ungaro is a former Italian diplomat. He spent sixteen years serving in Afghanistan. Between 2000 and 2007, he served as political adviser to the Italian led ISAF forces in Herat
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italian regional elections: and the winner is...?Thanks to extremely complex electoral laws and the ease with which alliances are created and broken, as is usual in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Regional elections in Italy: Could Renzi’s honeymoon be over?On Sunday, 31 May, regional elections will be held in seven very sensitive regions in Italy. Though Renzi has been...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: search for stability or authoritarian drift?Italy has a recent history which tends to make it resistant to the very concept of “stability”, and the idea of a...
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Published in: HomeThe Caliphate, the Pope and the West: The “Clash of Civilizations” revisitedOver a decade and a half ago Samuel P. Huntington’s book, “The Clash of Civilizations”, had made a considerable...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan: history repeats itself when ignoredThe invading NATO forces, in an action allegedly aimed at the defeat of terrorism in a country which had no...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hubris and nemesis: the nine lives of Mr BerlusconiIn Italy, the European elections are gaining importance because they could well constitute a watershed in the long...