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Putin’s bad 2020

2020 should have been a great year for Vladimir Putin, but, like for so many other people with big plans for this year, it is ending quite disappointingly. The year promised much in the way of maintaining Putin in power for years to come.…

Capire il capitalismo politico

L’etĂ  in cui il mondo sembrava plasmato dalle forze dei mercati sembra tramontare. Il capitalismo politico prospera, e non solo in Cina. Anche gli Stati Uniti promuovono l’intreccio strumentale e reale tra obiettivi economici ed…

The changing geopolitics of energy

Oil and gas have played a key role in international geopolitics since 1912. The same year, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty of the Royal Navy, decided to convert the fleet from coal to oil to keep pace with the faster German…