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Giancarlo Elia Valori What is the real strategic sense of Turkey’s very recent military operation in the Idlib region of North-Western Syria? We will analyse here, above all, the main strategic effects and the consequences within the entire Middle East region, as well as the counterpressures within the …

The Taliban will seek to run Afghanistan in line with their values and. America will have to stand back and watch. Drawing lessons from the U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan is important not only for determining the ways we may fight in the future, if we …

The stress on the U.S. economy and national debt will now increase dramatically in ways that cannot yet be fully calculated. While much of Washington engages in a fierce debate about whether Trump’s declared hope of getting America “back to work” by Easter is foolish or a prudent …

Low energy prices also may have the impact that years of U.S. sanctions and pressure have not. The main priority for the Trump administration over the past weeks has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Still, the U.S. government is also engaged in efforts to stabilize global energy …

Giancarlo Elia Valori In 2019 – the last year for which we have complete statistics – all classes of financial investment had a total increase of 23 trillion US dollars, particularly Stock Exchange securities and public debt instruments. The global value of Stock Exchange securities alone grew by …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs In recent years, although several ISIS leaders such as Hafiz Saeed Khan (the first leader of the in ISIS group in Khorasan in July 2016) and his successor have been killed, but the group is still present in …

Giancarlo Elia Valori As we have all realized, since the COVID-19 epidemics broke out the number of regulations enacted – especially by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers – has literally sky-rocketed. The starting date of the sequence of regulations is certain. It is, in fact, …

 Sajad Abedi[1] / Mohammad Amin Zabihi[2]   Terrorism is not a new phenomenon; our world has experienced different acts of terror since the peasant wars in ancient times to systematic acts of terror through religious-political agendas in modern days. Arguably, Terrorism, like any other phenomenon on the planet, …

Giancarlo Elia Valori How will the E.U. resources be defined in the near future for the coronavirus issue? The issue is, in fact, much more complex than we may think. The actual European Funds that are theoretically available are manifold: the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social …