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I prossimi mesi vedranno dei cambiamenti fondamentali nel panorama politico francese. La République irreprochable (repubblica irreprensibile) promessa da Nicolas Sarkozy durante la campagna elettorale del 2007 attraversa – oltre a una crisi…

In requesting UN membership for the State of Palestine under the pre-1967 lines, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas argued that the internationally accepted two-state solution has been undermined by Israel’s behavior: the unilateral…

For many decades, the relationship between Israel and Turkey was a cornerstone of regional stability in the Near East. Turkey was the first Muslim majority country to recognize the State of Israel in March 1949, and since then the two…

L'America si è davvero rialzata? L'interrogativo che appare sulla prima pagina di Le Monde sintetizza lo spirito con cui si discute sui giornali francesi il decennale dell'11 settembre; in uno dei paesi occidentali che meno ha approvato e…

On June 11, 2001, exactly three months before 9/11, Americans sat comfortably on their couches as they were transported via their television screens to Terre Haute, Indiana. That was the setting for the execution of the country's top…

The nineteenth century French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville was writing about “l’ancien regime” less than a lifetime after the 1789 French Revolution. The French people, Tocqueville wrote, had cut their destiny in two and were…

With the approach of the opposition to Sirte, NATO’s Operation Unified Protector over Libya will likely soon be scaled down. Nigh on ten years after 9/11, and after a grueling decade of controversy and division, the Alliance can finally…

In 2010, amid a stalemate in the peace process, continuing settlement construction and no amelioration of living conditions in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority decided to move forward with a Palestinian statehood…

Il 2011 si sta rivelando un anno di svolta per la politica spagnola. Da una parte, i giovani indignados hanno invaso e continuano a invadere la scena pubblica del paese, richiamandosi direttamente alle dimostrazioni a cui i loro coetanei…

L'analisi dei dati del Census 2010, compiuta su Aspenia online e neodemos.it dal Professor Livi Bacci, ci aiuta a confermare le interpretazioni dell'America politica ed elettorale prodotte negli ultimi anni. Da quando cioè ci si interroga…