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The 2010 NATO Strategic Concept sets an ambitious challenge: to re-orient the alliance’s main effort away from coping with enlargement and towards “active engagement”. The Strategic Concept defines the challenge thus: an alliance…

“Today, we have decided to intensify our co-operation still further. We want to enable our forces to operate together, to maximize our capabilities and to obtain greater value for money from our investment in defense.  We plan to increase…

In the debate over the Greek financial crisis, attention has understandably focused on questions of policy, transparency and responsibility in Athens, and in Europe. The recent meeting of the Aspen European Dialogue in Venice (March 5-6,…

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…

Sono state settimane importanti, per l’Unione europea. Perché sono caduti due motivi di stallo. Primo, lo stallo tedesco. Angela Merkel, vinte le elezioni e sotterrata la grande coalizione con i socialdemocratici, tenterà di guidare…