diplomacy

Consolidating the European Union is a geostrategic imperative. If the Union hopes to live on and to play an important role in world affairs, it must show it is able to accept new members and enlarge its own base. As membership for the…

Let me start from a sobering, general, viewpoint: my view on the future of Europe is quite pessimistic. The EU is confronting unprecedented global challenges, linked to the fragmentation scenario we are living in: de-globalization,…

The future of international humanitarian organizations in war zones already looked bleak before the conflict in Gaza and Israel broke out. The vast majority of international actors in this field have highlighted the unprecedented numbers of…

Il vertice fra Joe Biden e Xi Jinping a San Francisco non evoca la nascita di un G-2, un direttorio bipolare sulla testa dell’Europa o della Russia, gli alleati delle due parti. Ma dimostra che i principali rivali del mondo di oggi cercano…

The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in San Francisco has focused attention on the fraught relationship between the two superpowers – and on China’s three-body problem. China spearheads an open challenge to the Western view of the world and to the…