diplomacy

After four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Middle East seems more polarized than before, although with an emerging order. Trump has completed what President Barack Obama started, with different perspectives and tones (think “leading…

Latin Americans have not particularly appreciated Donald Trump’s administration. According to a Pew Research survey, while in 2015 42% of people in those countries said that they had no confidence in US President Barack Obama to do the…

Tensions are running high in the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkey disputes Greek and Cypriot maritime boundaries, and argues that Cyprus has no right to exploit its natural gas resources until it reaches a deal to share them with Turkish…

What should be done with the semi-democratic, post-Soviet countries at the eastern borders? The question has haunted the EU for the last ten years, after its enlargement to ten new members in 2004. The European Neighbourhood Policy, with…

Chi ricorda la storia delle guerre di dissoluzione della Yugoslavia, e specialmente il contesto bosniaco, avrà assistito al conflitto del 2014 tra Russia e Ucraina con un sinistro sentimento di déjà vu. Come da copione, alla costruzione…