Op-ed

The New York Times has reported upon what it says is the final agreement between Iran and China. According to the paper: “Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of Chinese investments in energy …

Giancarlo Elia Valori In principle it is not political choices that generate strategic doctrines. The opposite is true, if anything. In the case of China, for example, it is very useful to study the evolution of recent strategic assumption and the most current military doctrines so as to …

James M Dorsey Resolving the tug of war in the Middle East will require a backing away from approaches that treat conflicts as zero-sum games, and engagement by all regional and external players. To achieve that, players would have to recognise that in many ways, perceptions on both sides …

Giancarlo Elia Valori On June 15, 2020 the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) shot some Indian soldiers dead – approximately 20 – in Galwan, a valley and a river of the Ladakh region. The territorial issue in that region is still very difficult to settle: the 1993 Line of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …