30/06/2025
Valentina Sommella
Based on documentation in the Diplomatic Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, this article aims to examine the work of Italian diplomat Carlo Sforza, who was sent to China as extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister in the spring of 1911 with the task of developing a policy of economic and commercial cooperation.
Giulia Bianchi
The outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, alongside three decades of escalating tensions between the Russian Federation and NATO, has starkly highlighted the need to reassess the foundations of the post-Cold War European security architecture. As is well known, the end of the Cold War prompted discussions concerning the necessity of establishing a system of international relations that would reflect a world no longer divided into two opposing politico-economic blocs and military alliances.
AntonGiulio de'Robertis
The condition for the sustainable stability of a system of States is the involvement of its main power factors in a common concept of legitimacy. In the current state of the international system, there is an international organization – the United Nations – which at the time of its creation included the potential major powers of the system with decision-making capacity on the use of force.
Bichara Khader
Since October 7, there has been a flurry of books, in French, untitled October 7. Indeed, October 7 has been a horrific attack with many Israelis killed, injured or abducted. Personally, I will never subscribe to attacks on civilian population. For Israeli officials, history starts on October 7.
Riccardo Fiorentini
Fifty years after the demise off the Bretton Woods international monetary system, the US dollar is still the dominant currency even if other currencies, such as the euro and renminbi has been gaining an international status on a regional basis.
Orazio Maria Gnerre
Globalization is a “plural” phenomenon, fragmented in various ways that are expressed differently in many geographical and contextual sectors. In addition to this, there are various models of globalization that can be practiced and implemented, and they arise from different finalistic perspectives and visions of the world, and respond to as many material needs.
Pietro Pasculli
The European Union was one of the first organisations in the world to place the fight against climate change at the heart of its foreign and security policy agenda, developing climate security strategies that address the strategic and political impacts of climate change both within and outside the Union’s borders, with the ambition of influencing the international environment, acting as a global player and taking a leading role in environmental policy.
