The year 2026 is emerging as the "great test" for global governance structures. While in "Architettura del mondo" I described diplomacy as the art of generating shared meanings in a system lacking a supra-ordinate authority, today we are witnessing a radical challenge to this principle. 2026's Geopolitical Map Donald Trump's return to the White House has imposed a aggressive return to transactional realism, where international law is often perceived not as a framework for se

I define diplomacy as the most sophisticated and persistent form of power. It is, in the first place, an art capable of generating shared meanings within an international system that is, by its very nature, devoid of a supra-ordinate authority. And this article would like to explore the diplomacy evolution, its current challenges and the future perspectives. Historically, traditional diplomacy consolidated through centuries of rigid rituals and protocols, finding a fundamenta