Piergiorgio Valente - The release of the Multilateral Instrument constitutes an important step towards the most significant re-write of international tax rules in a `century. It is the multilateral convention enabling the simultaneous amendment of more than 3,000 existing bilateral conventions for the avoidance of double taxation.
Armenia S. et al. - The chapter is based on current research conducted by the authors as part of the “CROSSOVER Project – Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy Making,” an FP7-funded support action of the European Commission, whose main goal is to reach out to and raise the awareness of users, particularly public government practitioners and policymakers, while developing a research roadmap for establishing the scientific and political basis for long-lasting interest and commitment to next generation policymaking.
Armenia S. et al. - In recent years, awareness of the potential consequences associated with a major disruption to the critical infrastructure has grown among public and private entities. Indeed, traditional and emerging threats endanger service continuity and, by extension, the normal functioning of modern society.
Armenia S. et al. - Critical Infrastructures are widely perceived as the backbone of today's society and awareness about their security needs is constantly growing. Due to the fact that infrastructures are no longer a public-authority monopoly, investments in security and resilience need to be proven effective and cost-efficient vis-à-vis the emerging challenging and the issues at stake.
Armenia S, De Angelis A - This paper addresses the value of a proposed methodology for the analysis of complex international crises, by stating that Systems Thinking and System Dynamics (the former as the initial, qualitative, part in the approach, the latter as the basis for a possible development of our approach towards the development of Decision Support Systems for the quantitative analysis of crises scenarios) can be used to develop a suitable understanding of any complex situation in a timely manner.
Armenia S, Cardazzone A - The aim of our research is to analyze the development of some Islamic terror groups, by means of System Dynamics (SD). SD is a qualitative and quantitative methodology that helps analyzing complex systems, characterized by feedback mechanisms between actions taken by a decision maker and the reactions that the system manifests over time.
Armenia S, Carlini C, Saullo A P, Assogna P - Through this paper we will present the approach used in the CRISADMIN Project in order to first design a qualitative theoretical framework describing the context of the Crisis Management field, with a particular focus on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Armenia S, De Angelis A - When studying history, it usually through the accounts of the achievements of some outstanding leaders, who were capable of grasping the defining elements of the complexity of situations they faced, like Julius Caesar, whose political career was a collection of successes that were the result of his deep understanding of the Roman society and of his sensitivity in appreciating the complex situations in the lands under his control.
Armenia S, Carlini C, Onori R, Saullo A P - A new "strange" research area is emerging, whose name is Policy Modeling, which is an interdisciplinary “umbrella term” for a number of research fields, applications and technologies that can be applied in order to achieve the common goal of improving public decision‐making in the age of complexity.
Armenia S, Cardazzone A, Carlini C - In this paper we deal with the analysis of the Italian Presidential Decree on CyberSecurity (January 2013). Reading it, we had the impression that, again, policy makers lack systemic skills and the ability to evaluate the impacts of their choices and assumptions before implementing their decisions.