RSPI 1 2026

United States foreign policy and Cyprus: between Cold War and historical legacies

PAOLO SOAVE

International historiography broadly recognises summer 1974 as the peak in the contemporary Cypriot issue and the most criticised US engagement in that crisis. However, it is only by evaluating the entire course of US foreign policy since Cypriot independence that the flaws of a Cold War approach fully emerge, as well as US difficulties in dealing with typical identity overlaps.

Né pedina, né perno. Continuità e tra - sformazione nelle relazioni tra Myanmar e Cina prima e dopo il 1988.

OLIVIERO FRATTOLILLO

This article examines Myanmar’s role in the strategic landscape of Southeast Asia and the evolution of Sino-Myanmar relations from the Cold War to the present. It argues that Myanmar cannot be adequately understood either as a mere pawn in China’s regional strategy or as a stable pivot of the Asian geopolitical order.

Il saggio di Egon von Petersdorff sulla guerra ingiusta (1948).

ANTONIO ANTONIONI

Egon baron von Petersdorff (1892-1963) was a German military man, afterwards philosopher and theologian. Having experienced first hand the
tragic catastrophe of Europe and humanity, owing mostly to Prussian militarism, in the First World War, he went through a deep spiritual crisis.

La questione della reciprocità nelle alleanze asimmetriche dell’ordine mondiale statunitense.

TIBERIO GRAZIANI

This article examines the issue of reciprocity in US alliances as a structural indicator of the nature of the American hegemonic order. While the prevailing rhetoric emphasizes strategic partnership, collective security, and burden sharing, the operational practice of these alliances reveals a limited and selective reciprocity, particularly at the operational and strategic levels.

The accession of the new Pope, Leo XIV

KAGEFUMI UENO

The conclave held after the pontificate of Pope Francis prioritized preventing a division within the Catholic Church, which had become increasingly
polarized between liberal and conservative factions. For this reason, the cardinals avoided candidates with extreme ideological positions and elected a moderate figure: Pope Leo XIV