Mid East

 Per decisione del Presidente Biden, la NATO si appresta a chiudere la sua guerra dei vent’anni, quella in Afghanistan. La scadenza per il ritiro americano, fortemente simbolica, è stata fissata l’11 settembre 2021 – anche se non è del…

Saudi Arabia is stepping up cooperation with Iraq’s government to secure its northeastern flank. The goal is to contain and counter the Iranian presence in Baghdad, boosting economic and commercial ties, and the visit of the Iraqi Prime…

If there is one thing casual observers know about the cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, it is that they are changing and growing very quickly. The Gulf monarchies have overseen one of the most rapid and dynamic urban…

The controversial writer Richard Dawkins put it well: “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” It is hard to think of a better summing up of the new Biden administration’s naïve Wilsonian approach…

Un importante fattore di cambiamento sembra interessare la politica saudita da qualche mese a questa parte. Il ruolo pressoché incontrastato dell’erede al trono Mohammad bin Salman appare diminuito nella portata e nella sostanza, in un…