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Turkey. Is Ankara the main regional power in the East Mediterranean?
Turkey. Is Ankara the main regional power in the East Mediterranean?
The second out of three analyses on the eastern Mediterranean
Regional power…
Energy security: The great game of gas enters the eastern Mediterranean
Energy security: The great game of gas enters the eastern Mediterranean
The first out of three analyses on the eastern Mediterranean
The eastern…
FYROM: Macedonia gets a new name. Deal with Greece after 27-year row over a name
FYROM: The Macedonian Question over history and the new NATO perspective
The Background
The wider region of Macedonia has been under research and…
The Italian Maritime Security Strategy in the Mediterranean Sea
As a coastal state and in its capacity of Member of the EU and NATO, Italy should have developed a more solid maritime strategy and should have been granted…
New Energy Corridors in the Mediterranean Sea
In late 2009 the energy think-tank OME (Observatoire Méditernannéen de l’ Energie) prepared a study on the future of EU gas import security that highlighted…
Italy elections: a noisy request for radical change still lays without an answer
Before last March 4 one could argue whether or not general elections in Italy stood as a new telling litmus test about the state of western democracies.…
Libya, the (unreachable) stabilization
Since the defeat of long-term dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, many actors have failed in the attempt to mediate a negotiated solution to the Libyan crisis.…
The EU defence affairs, the future challenges of the European security
“ A Europe that protects; a Europe that defends at home and abroad ” is a statement by President Juncker during the State of the Union Address in 2016.…
Migrant crisis, the “blockchain technology”
The Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), social robots, 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, blockchain: these are only some of the…
Europe, the threat of returning foreign fighters
After the bankruptcy of DAESH, “returning foreign fighters (FFs) are the biggest threat to EU”, a threat that “is likely to persist in the coming years”.…