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The 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States has raised a renewed and lively debate about revisionism and revisionist powers in world politics. The three research programs within the realist school on International Relations – namely classical realism, neo-realism, and neo-classical realism – investigated these concepts from their very beginning. However, they have particularly addressed two questions about the “dissatisfied” states, those regarding the object (what?) and the causes (why?) of their revisionism.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has irrefutably reached ‘great power’ status. As a consequence, most
studies argue that it has adopted a revisionist posture towards the US-led international order. However, this
image tells us little about Beijing’s revisionist strategy, particularly whether it is revolutionary or incremental
and what this implies in terms of actual policies. The current article posits that the PRC is behaving as an
incremental revisionist and aims at tracing its modes. To verify this hypothesis, the analysis focuses on

This article deals with the main issues that are characterizing the methodology debate in the legal domain and, in particular, in administrative law field. After a reconstruction of the leading aims and characteristics that have distinguished the legal method and the sci- entific debate thereon (having regard to the relationship with the practice of law and legal education), the analysis moves on to examine the historical roots and developments that characterized, in the twentieth century, the methodology issue in the Italian administrative law scholarship.

The article puts the book on Deliberative democracy by Antonio Floridia in dialogue with Habermas’s «ideal speech situation» and to the critiques moved to that concept; he highlights the cultural, social and economic requirements for an authentic democracy.