Security & Diplomacy

“Ci sono patrioti che hanno sostenuto questa guerra e patrioti che l’hanno osteggiata”. L’Obama pedagogico ed ecumenico – quello che siamo abituati ad ascoltare da due anni a questa parte, da quando cioè spiegò ai bianchi la rabbia dei neri…

Aspenia online: ­­The global geopolitical landscape is changing­ before our eyes, and this trend seems to have accelerated with th­e economic ­crisis and the emergence of new f­ora s­uc­h a­s the G20.­  What is your assessm­ent of the…

Fin dalla Rivoluzione del 1979, molti osservatori occidentali hanno costruito ed alimentato il mito di uno Stato iraniano monolitico e verticista, controllato al suo vertice da una figura – e una soltanto – al tempo stesso politica e…

With the notable exceptions of Woodrow Wilson’s second term and Franklin Roosevelt’s third and fourth, all modern American presidents have been elected primarily to deal with domestic problems. The adage attributed to former House Speaker…

To misquote Douglas MacArthur, ‘Old institutions don’t die, they just fade away.’ Sadly in international relations most organizations that have outlived their usefulness continue to solider on, saved only by bureaucratic inertia and the…