The new e-book the ASERI and MEPIN director, prof. Vittorio Emanuele Parsi: "Vulnerable: how the pandemic will change the world: three scenarios for international politics", edited by Piemme Molecules (in Italian only).
"With Covid-19, humanity has rediscovered itself vulnerable. Global interdependence has presented us with the bill, it has shown us its dark side, in the face of which we have felt lost and powerless. The future, however, confronts us with the possibility of working so that the awareness of our vulnerability is the element around which to rethink and rebuild a new interdependence, so as not to be caught unprepared not only by the next pandemic, but also by any other future external shock, avoiding yet another massacre of populations, economic well-being, social cohesion and individual rights.
We must begin to conceive of ourselves as the crew of a single and irreplaceable vessel, which sails endlessly in an endless ocean. The ship is vulnerable, and its most vulnerable component is the crew, whose safety cannot be put in the background: because the solidity and resilience of a system are dictated by those of the most fragile element".