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Navigazione a vista con pochi alleati: la difficile rentrée geopolitica saudita

Eleonora Ardemagni Sep 8, 2016

Dopo una fase di incertezza e di scelte non sempre oculate – in coincidenza con l’avvicendamento di governo in varie posizioni-chiave – l’Arabia Saudita tenta una difficile rentrée nelle partite della geopolitica mediorientale (Siria,…

The post-referendum era: time to look forward

Victor Broers Jul 28, 2016

What will Britain look like, now that it has decided to leave the European Union? And what are its opportunities in a post Brexit-era, with an unstable Europe and a destabilizing geopolitical context? Although it has not yet been decided…

Mediterraneo e non solo Russia: la NATO in cerca di una strategia olistica

Eleonora Ardemagni Jul 19, 2016

Tra mar Baltico (“fianco est”) e mar Mediterraneo (“fianco sud”), il centro geopolitico di gravità della NATO si chiama oggi mar Nero: l’insolito incontro di Varsavia tra i ministri degli esteri di Polonia, Romania e Turchia lo ha…

Warsaw: NATO’s vital, lame duck summit

Julian Lindley-French Jul 12, 2016

US President Barack Obama said that NATO’s Warsaw Summit was the most important such gathering of Alliance heads of state and government since the end of the Cold War. It was also his last. This juxtaposition between importance and “lame…

Russia, the G7/G8 and no looking back

Ivan Nechepurenko Jun 1, 2016

The Russia of President Vladimir Putin will not seek re-admission into the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations just as the West will not invite it back. The other members of the former G8 expelled Moscow from the Group in 2014 (hence…