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In the past, the balance of power went something like this: the Europeans ran the International Monetary Fund and the Americans headed up the World Bank. Now, with new emerging economic powers, Europe itself needing debt bailouts and the US…

Marta Dassù makes a very good point when she reminds us of the difficulty analysts and policy makers face in anticipating dramatic changes on the international scene. We are simply very bad at predicting the future. International affairs…

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…

There is no doubt that the gigantic cache of secret cables published this week by online whistleblower WikiLeakshas created far more than a diplomatic shakeup for the United States. It has launched a debate on America’s true identity abroad…

Lo si vede fin dal momento che si scende dall'aereo: un pallone da calcio gigantesco appeso al soffitto dell'International Airport di Johannesburg, addobbato con bandiere gialle con lo slogan “2010 Let’s Go! WORLD CUP!”. Guardandosi…