Silvia Grandi, Christian Sellar Abstract Using the geographical patterns of Italian banks’ international network as a case study, this paper studies the relationship between governmental economic strategies, the international strategies of banks, and firms’ internationalization. After a spatial distribution analysis, this paper models the main strategic organizational processes of the Italian banking system since the…

Sergio Conti Abstract The paper is focused on the evaluation of the Territorial Agenda of the European Union, aimed to support the Lisbon and the Gothenburg strategies, and focuses on the main challenges promoted, such as spatial integration, network policies, historical vocations. These goals must be connected to polycentrism and cohesion, in order to contrast…

Paolo Pane Abstract The last few years have been marked by a resumption of the strategic competition between the powers for the conquest of space, which has become a terrain of competition and an object of growing interest on the part of the main world players, creating a real geopolitics of space exploration that requires…