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The geopolitics of Venezuela’s crisis

As the Venezuelan crisis deepens, the risk of increasing escalation grows exponentially in the country, the Western Hemisphere and internationally. Domestically, Nicolas Maduro’s standard playbook is attempting to defuse the situation by…

La crisi acuta e la possibile svolta in Venezuela

“Stiamo fronteggiando – e sconfiggeremo – un tentativo di colpo di Stato orchestrato dalle destre sotto la tutela di Washington, volto a privare il Venezuela della propria sovranitĂ  e instaurare un regime asservito all’impero statunitense e…

China’s information war

Over the past five or six years, China’s state-backed global information strategy, which once seemed incapable of exerting significant influence internationally, has been radically overhauled and expanded. This shift comes at a time when…

Digital power and democracy

We live in a society that revolves around data. The use of digital data is so all-pervasive, particularly (though not only) in the more industrially-advanced economies, that it has spawned a new ecosystem: the uninterrupted flow of digital…