RSPI 2010/3

30/09/2010

Il fantasma dello spirito di dominazione. Riflessioni in margine alla storia della politica internazionale

Danilo Veneruso

The following reflections on contemporary history as universal history are based on the book of Alessandro Duce, Storia della politica internazionale (1917-1957): dalla rivoluzione d’ottobre ai trattati di Roma.

La «decolonizzazione» di Gibilterra

Giuseppe Vedovato

Working on important documents, the Author offers an overall political and historical reconstruction of the Gibraltar question since the Treaty of Utrecht (1713).At that time, the Rock was reluctantly ceded by Spain to Great Britain. Spain always attempted to reconquest Gibraltar militarily by some useless sieges, and claim of the Rock by peaceful means was a constant policy.

Iran’s Mediterranean shores

Luca Fortis

Khomeini's Islamic revolution has radically transformed the Shia doctrine, with dramatic consequences for the entire Middle-East. Iranian influence has been greatest in the precarious Lebanese and Israelo-Palestinian situations, initially through the charity activities of Hezbollah and Hamas, the components and historical links of which are analysed in detail.

The British general election (2010) and the political consciousness of the market-state

Nicolas Lewkowicz

The demise of the Cold War brought with it a significant transformation of the international order. This transformation entailed the end of the political and economic symbiosis between the Western democracies and communism.

Verso una rinnovata dottrina strategica della Nato

Antongiulio de' Robertis

In front of the ever changing international political environment Nato is updating again, after ten years, its strategic doctrine through a process of consultations and analysis carried on by a the special group of experts named by its Secretary general.

La question de l’«oecuménicité» du Patriarcat orthodoxe d’Istanbul. Réflexion sur un arrêt de la Cour de cassation turque

Emre Öktem

In its judgment, dated 2007, relating to the dismissal of a Bulgarian priest by the Greek Patriarchate of Istanbul, the Turkish High Civil Court concluded that such an act has not breached the applicant’s freedom of religion.

Cesidio Guazzaroni, il sorriso della pazienza

Pietro Calamia

Starting in the Forties, the diplomatic career of Cesidio Guazzaroni went on through the second part of the XXth Century. As young diplomat, after September 8th 1943, he left the Italian Embassy in Berlin, to be interned in Austria. Back to Italy, he was attached for several years to the Cabinets of the then Foreign Ministers, namely De Gasperi and Sforza.