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Moments after the first shots were fired on Ukrainian territory on February 24, it was clear that the conflicts’ ramifications would go far beyond the local context, touching on geopolitical stakes, games of allegiances, as well as the…

Il verbo arabo ḫabaza indica l’azione di fare il pane. Possedere una parola ad hoc che, a differenza dell’italiano “panificare”, è di uso frequente nella lingua quotidiana è già di per sé indicativo dell’importanza di questo alimento nella…

In Mali e nel Sahel, gli equilibri di potere locali e internazionali stanno rapidamente mutando: in estrema sintesi, meno francesi (ed europei), più russi (e cinesi). Tale evoluzione non tocca - però e almeno per ora - le monarchie del…

China’s economy faces a significant slowdown in coming years, as I argued in an essay published in December 2021 and excerpted in AspeniaOnline. A worst case scenario would result in an acute crisis with domestic and international political…

Kazakhstan’s commodities-dependent economy has been suffering since 2014 when oil and mineral prices crashed. In just three years, gross domestic product dropped by 42%, from $235.6 billion in 2014 to $137.3 billion in 2016. A modest…