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The note aims at highlighting the main aspects of the personality of Ezio Vanoni as a politician engaged to translate his scholarly experiences into government action, and particularly to design and support the tax reform known by his name. Social sensitivity, realism, rigor and therefore maximum attention to the organizational aspects of public institutions are essential features of his personality, and inspire his work as a politician, as well as a Catholic thinker and economic planner.

The paper connects the eurobonds issue to the political aspects of the current eurozone crisis. It firstly emphasizes that the possible future issuance of Eurobonds, or the refusal to do so, represent signs of the emergence of cooperative or, alternatively, non-cooperative behaviors among eurozone countries. Such a dichotomy, in turn, appears as a clear proof of the political roots of the crisis. Accordingly to this perspective, the persistent demand for a full European political integration as the decisive step out of the crisis is reviewed by analyzing a list of works, particularly the conclusions of the Reflection Group on the future of the European Union and the concluding remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy.

The note briefly summarizes the contents of two collective books, on China and India respectively. As China and India have "continental" dimensions, they foster hopes, provoke fear, excite curiosity and encourage closer examination. The two books originate from a scientific research work promoted and coordinated by the Faculty of Political sciences of the University of Pavia, and review some outstanding features of both the political, social and economic systems. Adapted from the source document.

In this introduction, which is not a survey, but instead a selective & personal view of some approaches to the subject of the volume (international, or transnational, terrorism), the a., first of all, emphasizes the fact that in the foreign (mainly in the American) literature the topic has been thoroughly stressed since many years .The recent literature is briefly examined in the following respects: (1) the variety of the analytical perspectives, (2) the relevance of the islamic context, (3) the utilization of analytical tools peculiar to particular subjects. Adapted from the source document.