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Oltre il Nagorno-Karabakh: l’ombra degli Imperi sul Caucaso

Stefano Stefanini Oct 20, 2020

Si spara ancora in Nagorno-Karabakh. Mediato dalla Russia fra Armenia e Azerbaijan, il cessate il fuoco non è finora riuscito a far tacere le armi. Può darsi che le continue violazioni di cui entrambe le parti si accusano siano scosse di…

The changing geopolitics of energy

Marco Alverà Oct 15, 2020

Oil and gas have played a key role in international geopolitics since 1912. The same year, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty of the Royal Navy, decided to convert the fleet from coal to oil to keep pace with the faster German…

The Middle East after four years of Trump: a new order in the making

Eleonora Ardemagni Oct 8, 2020

After four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Middle East seems more polarized than before, although with an emerging order. Trump has completed what President Barack Obama started, with different perspectives and tones (think “leading…

L’Afghanistan tra negoziati e guerriglia

Emanuele Giordana Oct 8, 2020

I giorni che sono seguiti allo storico incontro a Doha tra il governo di Kabul e i Talebani, il 12 settembre, sono stati segnati da combattimenti e incidenti il cui bilancio è di decine di morti. Mentre il presidente Ashraf Ghani lunedì 21…

The new energy geopolitics of “East Med”

Pier Paolo Raimondi Oct 5, 2020

The Eastern Mediterranean has become a major hotspot for the natural gas industry and geopolitical competition driven by several offshore discoveries in the last decade. These discoveries have attracted increasing interest among several…