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HARMONY & RAGE
"Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Paris and Berlin".
John Peet - Political Editor
THE ECONOMIST
"A wake-up call for the 21st century".
Nils Pratley
THE GUARDIAN
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The Return of Geopolitics and Imperial Conflict
"...practitioners and academics alike would be well-advised to spend time with Bongiovanni's literary achievement and clear tour de force in the geopolitical literature."
Chris McKee, CEO of the PRS GROUP
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"…an outstanding, provocative and very valuable book that goes to the deep roots of a new global geopolitical architecture that is gradually and violently emerging and provides the reader with the analytical tools to observe and understand it.”
Michel-Henry Bouchet Ph.D., Emeritus Global Finance Professor at SKEMA, former Senior Economist at the WORLD BANK
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"...credible and important as a warning and as a call to action."
George Yeo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
Published in 2024
After the brief respite that followed the fall of the USSR, geopolitics and major wars are back, affecting everyone everywhere. In a world transitioning to multipolarity Great Powers jostle for supremacy, regional powers feel emboldened to act on their own ambitions, supply chains are disrupted and instability becomes the norm. America has an empire that it wants to keep, Russia lost an empire that it wants to recover and China doesn’t have an empire and wants one - with India the wildcard. But there is more to it than Great Power rivalry. From Ukraine to the South China Sea, from the Middle East to Central Asia, from the Arctic to outer space Bongiovanni lays it bare in this fascinating journey across the geopolitics of our time with, in the background, de-globalization, the battle against the dollar and the new AI-driven age.
"Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Paris and Berlin".
John Peet - Political Editor THE ECONOMIST
"With his trademark style Bongiovanni takes an unflinching look at what took the continent to this moment ".
Ian Bremmer - President & Founder EURASIA GROUP
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Europe and the End of the Age of Innocence
Published in 2018
Francesco M. Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to "The Decline and the Fall of Europe” , a book the press called “A wake-up call for the 21st century”. Since 2012 Europe has been confronted with new, unexpected game-changing challenges such as the refugee crisis and its human tsunami, the surprise of Brexit and the explosion of 'alternative' politics. Europeans have finally come to realize that the open-societies that they have been comfortably living in are under threat and fragmenting, leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the 'new normal', part of daily life. The North-South cleavage brought about by the eurozone crisis is now completed by a deep East-West cleavage born from the refugee crisis. Against this backdrop, a Germany that is not all that it seems has become Europe’s de-facto ruler, but is unfit to lead, while Trump’s America cannot be counted on as it once used to. A beacon of stability and prosperity in the past, Europe, facing new and terrifying challenges is today more than ever torn apart, increasingly unstable and adrift…
"A wake-up call for the 21st century".
Nils Pratley - THE GUARDIAN
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"The most perceptive account to date of a Europe that indulged in too many illusions".
Bret Stephens - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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The Decline and Fall of Europe
Published in 2012
Europe stands on the brink of a monumental fall, wrestling with colossal economic, social, political and strtategic challenges. 'The Decline and Fall of Europe' reveals the hidden cracks that threaten to tear Europe apart, many of which hgave been deliberately ignored by politicians for decades, and in the process asks the question - is Project Europe really worth saving?
Bio
Francesco M. Bongiovanni has lived in Europe, Asia, America and in the Arab world. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate in engineering. A former investment banker, he subsequently worked as an entrepreneur and as an advisor in strategy and finance.
He is a serial entrepreneur in the space sector.
He has been made a Knight of the Order of St Charles for his contribution to humanitarian endeavours and biodiversity protection. He is an author and a composer of classical symphonic music and jazz .
Selected other publications
Bio
Francesco M. Bongiovanni has lived in Europe, Asia, America and in the Arab world. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate in engineering. A former investment banker, he subsequently worked as an entrepreneur and as an advisor in strategy and finance.
He is a serial entrepreneur in the space sector.
He has been made a Knight of the Order of St Charles for his contribution to humanitarian endeavours and biodiversity protection. He is an author and a composer of classical symphonic music and jazz .