30/09/2011
Maria Grazia Melchionni
This article reproduces, with some more details, the story told to Alessandra Peralta, film maker at Rai Educational, by Maria Grazia Melchionni on November 27, 2010 in Rome. It aims at showing how Emilio Colombo, who has been a protagonist on the European scene for more than thirty years – either as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Industry and External Commerce, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Treasury, President of the Council of the Italian
Republic, either as member of the Monnet Committee and President of the European Parliament
–, contributed to building a united Europe.
Pietro Calamia
The Author, at the time young diplomat at the Press office of the Italian Foreign Ministry, makes a detailed account of the visit in the Soviet Union, in February 1960, by the President of the Republic, Giovanni Gronchi.
Domenico Caccamo
The diplomatic cables published by Julian Assange’s organization illustrate the main directives of American foreign policy at the time of transition between Presidents Bush and Obama and during
the global economic crisis. They throw light on the events leading up to the Arab Spring and the Libyan War, showing that the United States’ aversion toward the regimes of Tunis, Cairo and Tripoli had deep roots.
Alexander N. Vylegzhanin
The article depicts the development of international law applicable to economic activities in the Arctic Ocean in the new environmental reality caused by diminishing sea ice. Special attention is paid to the interaction of universal, regional, bilateral and national levels of legal regulation of economic activities in the High North. Inaccuracies in legal assessments of status of the Arctic seas are noted.
Rocco Romano
Until the outbreak of the Six-Day War, the Suez Canal was the main access route to the Mediterranean for Arab oil. Programs for the development of pipelines in the Middle East region implemented after the 1967 war created a permanent alternative to using the Egyptian waterway, compromising the future of the canal as a strategic artery for intercontinental trade oil.
Giuseppe Vedovato
The transfer of the Savoy’ Archives from Italy to France, followed on from the Peace Treaty in 1947, constituted a loss of documents and historical heritage. The files indeed showed the tendency of the Savoia Monarchy, since the Middle Age, towards the organization and
modernization of the State institutions.
Amedeo Benedetti
The article concerns the Political Testament of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu.We provide a pragmatic approach to Richelieu’s fundamental book, by highlighting a few passages and comparing them with analogous statements of other personalities of the Seventeenth century, like Baltasar Gracián or Cardinal Mazarin.
