RSPI 2024/2

12/11/2024

La missione diplomatica di Carlo Sforza a Corfù (1916- 1918)

Fabrizio Rudi

In the autumn of 1915, Carlo Sforza received from Sidney Sonnino the very important task of representing the Kingdom of Italy to the Serbian government in exile on the island of Corfu. at that time, Serbia had received a terrible defeat from the Central Empires with the entry of bulgaria into the war, and it was urgent for Italy to take a restraining action in the geographical area of its immediate political and territorial interest: the Adriatic Sea.

Černenko, l’uomo dell’apparato

Andrea Giannotti

“You won’t believe it, but he’s dead too!” went a joke with black humour that circulated in the Soviet union in the spring of 1985. “He” was Konstantin Chernenko, elected just a year earlier to the post of General Secretary of the CPSU.

Russia contro Occidente: mito o realtà?

Alexey Paramonov

In its centuries-old history, russia has never shown expansionist aspirations towards the West: the only thing russia has ever done is reacting to previous acts of aggression. The West, on the other hand, regularly makes strong attempts to weaken and push russia towards the edge of the world, and it does so with enviable persistence, about once every century.

L’evoluzione del Concetto strategico della NATO

Emanuele Farruggia

The Grand Strategy of NATO, seen as a Security Community, has been set over the years in the Strategic Concepts. Since 1949 and up to the most recent update in 2022, NATO adopted eight Strategic Concepts at every milestone of its successful story.

Aspetti e problemi del multilateralismo del XXI secolo

Matteo Luigi Napolitano

The essay examines some aspects of multilateralism in the context of peacetime and wartime. The conceptual links between multilateralism and democracy in its various manifestations are briefly analyzed, as well as as examples ofmultilateralism at work in different parts of the world.