02/07/2019
Nicolas Lewkowicz
This article examines the historical evolution of the New World Order established after the end of the Cold War, highlighting the gradual disjuncture between the process of convergence instigated by the age of globalization and the geostrategic interests of the United States. Since 2001, the United States sought to reverse the decline of its hegemonic position in world affairs. This phenomenon is creating a realignment of the international political system, particularly in the context of the rise of revisionist powers such as China and Russia.
Mauro Lucentini
The article takes a mysterious illness that has afflicted North American diplomats in Cuba as a point of departure to highlight the risks inherent in new electronic technologies, with special reference to the ‘fifth generation’ cybernetics (5G) that have begun to be installed in many countries. The concern is especially relevant for the low-priced collaboration offered by China for this infrastructure and underlines the arrest in the USA of a senior executive of the largest Chinese company, Huawei, operating in the sector.
Mikhail Nosov
Five years ago «RSPI» published the article Russia between Europe and Asia. Since 2013 Russia started development of its Eastern policy, results of which are presented in this article. Author analyzes Russian policy in Asia, including efforts to develop Russian Far Eastern region, and its consequences for its relations with Europe.
Fabio Caffio
Russia, confirming its centuries-old policy of control of adjacent seas, trie sto restrict Ukraine’s access to the Sea of Azov in the frame work of the dispute over Crimean waters. Moscow, at the same time, gains the conclusion of a delimitation agreement of the Caspian Sea which excludes the access of other countries. Russia, while being a defender of freedom of navigation to the Mediterrean for its geopolitical interests, continues to entrench itself in the Black Sea and in other
Eastern seas.
Fabio Masini
The paper aims to highlight the reasons for the increasing distrust of European citizens towards European institutions and the whole integration process. The main point is that, due also to the struggle among different intellectual influences, such distrust is the result of the abandoning of the original path of sovereignty sharing for the creation of supranational institutions, thus degenerating into a technocratic system governed only by rules, rather than by a discretional capacity to work out collective and legitimate policies.
Catello Avenia
The case of Puerto Rico, that in a plebiscite of 2017 has shown to be in favor of being annexed to the United States, assumes the appearance of an inverse decolonization: instead of claiming a right of secession from the motherland, the right asked is to join the latter, maintaining political economic and security relations even after achieving independence. For the US Constitution Puerto Rico is a territory falling within the sovereignty of the United States and (at the same time) enjoying self-government and its own Constitution. But it is not definitively integrated into the system and it isn’t equal to the other States of the Union, it is just a territory without legal personality and definable, only, as a Commonwealth.
Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo - Angela Paparusso
The aim of this work is to offer a contribution to the scientific debate on the European impasse concerning the issue of migrants. The answer to the request of acquis communautaire which, the Authors argue, raises from migrants’ mobility, should be found in a European approach based on the principle of subsidiarity. At the local level, the solutions to the problems of integration and
interculturalism; at the national level, the planning of legal flows and at the supranational level, the political governance of migrations movements, including the relations with the migrants’ sending countries.
Maria Teresa Battistelli
In the past the European Community hardly dealt with such issues as the admission and stay of foreigners as a traditional competence of the Member States. After the abolition of inner border (Schengen 1985) Directive no. 2003/86/CE harmonized the family reunification norms at national level for foreigners legally residents in Member States.
Francesco Fusco
Today Iran is one of the strongest powers in the Middle East, representing a vital partner for many Western and Asian countries given its natural resources and commercial value. Yet, the United States perceives Iran as an adversary, an agent of chaos, potentially able to jeopardize the stability of the region, posing a concrete risk for the American allies present in the area, such as Israel and
Saudi Arabia. The apparent American hostility origins from a crisis dating back to the Cold War, when Iran, turning from monarchy to Islamic Republic, severely compromised the reputation of the United States, demonstrating its (relative) vulnerability.
