Luca G. Castellin
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Luca G. Castellin
@lucagcastellin.bsky.social
Husband & Father I Historian of Political Thought
I Associate Professor at @unicatt.bsky.social I Working on political realism, nuclear weapons, and international thought
Toynbee’s reflections still resonate today, as we grapple with how to build institutions — and moral frameworks — capable of addressing truly global challenges.

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November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
He came to see the voluntary unification of humankind as the only safeguard against nuclear catastrophe — a vision that evolved through three stages:

• a liberal-imperial worldview,
• a cosmopolitan and revolutionary imagination,
• and finally, a spiritual and utopian turn.
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Between the 1920s and 1970s, Toynbee searched for ways to ensure global peace and stability in an age marked by war, decolonization, and nuclear peril.
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The article — “‘All Mankind and yet nothing but Mankind’: Arnold J. Toynbee and the World State” — explores an often overlooked side of Toynbee’s international thought: his reflections on the idea of a world state.
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Poiché in generale la passione del potere, come ogni altra, ha la tendenza a eliminare i controlli e a cagionare una decadenza di colui che ne è invasato.

Ludwig Dehio, Equilibrio o egemonia (1948)
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM