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Those familiar with Russian history will know of the so-called “Potemkin village.” Under the reign of Catherine II (1762–1796), the general Grigori Potemkin — whose campaigns led to the conquest of Crimea and much of today’s southern…

La crisi profonda che colpisce il Libano è molto di più di un ennesimo capitolo dello storico scontro tra Israele e il partito armato sciita Hezbollah. Da settimane, il fronte libanese ha smesso di essere un ambito laterale della guerra che…

On July 7-8, NATO allies gathered for their annual summit in Ankara. This is the first time Türkiye hosts the Heads of state and government in 20 years, the last one being in 2004 in Istanbul. The official event came at a moment in which…

In May 2017, Emmanuel Macron entered the Élysée Palace as, by some distance, the most explicitly doctrinaire French president in a long time. His ambition was not purely to govern France but to reposition it as a puissance d'équilibre, the…

Every past war was once a future war for which states prepared…or at least they should have prepared. Contemporary Europe is the first community of states that seems to have decided that not only can soft power replace hard power, but that…