“La scossa globale” by Maurizio Molinari
The author presents his latest book, “La scossa globale”, Rizzoli editions
In conversation with
Charles A. Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Moderated by
Claudio Pagliara
Director ICI-NY
Trump’s return to the White House sends shockwaves across the globe, with cascading repercussions for the international order and for the daily lives of each of us. The balance among great powers shifts, alliances are reshaped, conflict zones evolve, and ideas of leadership, contested resources, economic challenges, and even the relationship between media and democracy are transformed. All this may lead to new power dynamics within the spheres of influence of Washington, Moscow, and Beijing—or even to a global conflict.
The heart of these pages is the international order in suspension, the focus of Maurizio Molinari’s reflection. One of the most attentive and knowledgeable observers of the global geopolitical landscape, Molinari guides us with precise scenario-building, enriched by maps and graphs, allowing us to peer over the edge of the “age of uncertainty” that defines our time. He starts from the crucial events of recent years—first and foremost the two active conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East—and concentrates on the earthquake triggered by Donald Trump’s presidency.
Political-military confrontation, economic competition, and the struggle for technological supremacy: all dimensions of the rivalry among global superpowers and regional actors are shaped by the new course in the White House, producing an unpredictable, volatile, and traumatic panorama. It is a scenario that concerns us all, one that everyone must understand in order to navigate the present. This book seeks to explain where we are—and where we risk ending up in the near future.
Maurizio Molinari, born in Rome in 1964, is the columnist of La Repubblica on Global Affairs. He was Editor in chief of Repubblica from April 2020 to October 2024.
He started as a journalist in 1984 at La Voce Repubblicana, worked on Foreign and Security Affairs in different newspapers and tv and in 1997 arrived at La Stampa as diplomatic correspondent, and then was posted in Brussels, New York and Jerusalem-Ramallah. He became editor in chief of La Stampa in 2016 and left in 2020 to take the same position at La Repubblica.
Both at La Stampa and La Repubblica he led the digital transition of the editorial system, reorganizing the newsroom and achieving important results in digital reading and the use of the social network as a new tool for quality journalism.
Since 1989 he covered the conflicts in the Balkans, Middle East and Horn of Africa. Among the leaders he interviewed there are the US presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Condoleezza Rice, Madleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki moon, colonel Qaddafi, Saudi king Abdallah, Israeli prime ministers Netanyahu and Peres, Israeli president Rivlin, PLO chairman Arafat, Palestinian president Abbas, the Pkk commander Ocalan, the Iraqi Kurdish president Barazani and the Turkish President Erdogan.
He published in Italy 24 books on Foreign Policy, including “The Caliphate of Terror” and “Mediterranean Contended”, the last one, published in November 2025, is “The global shake up ” by Rizzoli.
Molinari studied at the Manchester College and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before taking his degrees in Foreign Policy and History at the University of Rome.
Married with Micol, they have four kids, all born in New York City.
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