Giancarlo Elia Valori With specific reference to the health situation, Russia is still in a severe situation with over 350,000 Covid-19 cases. Brazil, however, has replaced the Russian Federation as the hardest hit country in the world, while the United States is now firmly at the top of …
Read More »Turkey’s approach to Libya and its prospects
Farzad Ramezani Bonesh It is more than a few years that Benghazi and Tripoli, as the main centers of Libya in the east and west of the country, have been in conflict over getting the power in the country. Giving the escalation of the conflict in Libya and …
Read More »The theory of hybrid warfare as developed by Generals Gerasimov and Primakov
Giancarlo Elia Valori The first complete development of the “hybrid warfare” theory by Russia – which, anyway, invented it – can be found in an article by General Gerasimov, the Russian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff of the time, in an essay published in the weekly magazine Corriere …
Read More »As US-China Competition Unfolds, Russia Watches Closely
Emil Avdaliani Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since Russia emerged as a major Eurasian power in the early 18th century. Each crisis with the West alternated with rapprochement and …
Read More »Will the U.S. Republican Party survive the current election race?
Andrei Kadomtsev A number of leading members of the Republican Party have sharply criticized the Trump Administration’s response to the riots that have swept America the past few weeks. The US media, traditionally critical of the present occupant of the White House, even argues that just as Trump’s …
Read More »Why Resolution of Border Issues/ Standoffs between China and India is so Complicated?
Shashi Asthana As the tug of war in Galwan Valley continues, the adventurism of China in Ladakh and few other places along at Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the resultant standoff between Chinese and Indian Forces has once again highlighted the complexity of the border issue between …
Read More »The new project for the Mediterranean
Giancarlo Elia Valori In the future the Mediterranean issue will realistically be that of dividing it into zones of influence -albeit communicating with one another – and anyway capable of absorbing also the geopolitical and military tension that will emerge in other world regions. The idea that the …
Read More »US-China Rivalry: Gulf States Struggle to Hedge Their Bets
James M. Dorsey Huawei during its fourth annual Middle East Innovation Day during GITEX Technology Week at the Dubai World Trade Centre. (October 6-10, 2019) While much of the focus in recent weeks has been on Israel’s relations with China, the real litmus test of the United States’ …
Read More »Italy’s current economic crisis
Giancarlo Elia Valori The day of reckoning has now come for the Italian economic crisis, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic and the related lockdown. As the Italian Statistical Institute (ISTAT) showed, 34% of Italian production has been negatively affected. The activity and operations of 2.2 million companies, accounting …
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