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It is not too early to think through what sort of foreign policies the two would be likely to run if they were to enter the White House. One thing is for sure: the relatively quiet, steady, realist Obama years are about to be superseded by…

After running on parallel tracks for several weeks, the Democratic and Republican primaries diverged on Super Tuesday to go each in its own direction. While the Grand old party (Gop) accelerated toward a Donald Trump train wreck, the…

State borders in the Middle East are under great pressure from multiple forces. The Ebook just published by Treccani (“Bordering a New Middle East: Frontiers, weak states and the great imbalance of power”), as an Aspenia online Special,…

Few Asian countries have had as long and sustained a historical engagement with the Middle East as India. One of mankind’s oldest maritime trading routes ran from ancient Sumeria via Bahrain to the civilization of the Indus Valley. Imperial…

Forse il Medio Oriente è davvero piombato in quella che Richard Haass ha definito una nuova guerra dei trent’anni, caratterizzata dalla indistinguibilità tra guerre civili e guerre per procura.