RUSSIA – UKRAINE (impact) Al Jazeera India and Pakistan have both emphasised the importance of de-escalation in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, while carefully avoiding ascribing responsibility for the violence, with the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours attempting to walk differing diplomatic high-wires, analysts say. On Sunday, Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke via telephone with his […]
Month: February 2022
Il pensiero strategico , di cui qui si elabora, è frontiera del pensiero: mai come oggi è venuto il tempo di percorrerla. Ci siamo lasciati alle spalle, ormai da più di trent’anni, un mondo cosiddetto bi-polare nel quale c’erano posizioni chiare che si confrontavano. Un mondo che ci chiamava a scegliere decisamente da che parte […]
RUSSIA – UKRAINE (impact, reactions) Brookings As in the rest of the world, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 is casting a long shadow across Africa. Despite the geographical distance, there are important ties between Ukraine and Africa, including more than 8,000 Moroccans and 4,000 Nigerians studying in Ukraine and over $4 billion in exports from Ukraine to Africa. […]
Ci piace riprendere il testo di Adriana Piancastelli pubblicato su Zero Zero News in data odierna (Il grande poker Ferraro Falcone Borsellino Caponnetto) in ricordo di Liliana Ferraro. Persona che è stata protagonista decisiva di una stagione importante della storia italiana, il suo esempio è da studiare per comprendere il presente e immaginare il futuro. […]
RUSSIA – UKRAINE (impact, reactions) Brookings Even before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine earlier today, several commentators, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, argued convincingly that a Russian occupation of more of Ukraine, perhaps including Kyiv, would lead to an insurgency like that which the Soviet Union faced in Afghanistan in the 1980s. […]
Riprendiamo questa riflessione di Maurizio Melani, pubblicata su Lettera Diplomatica n. 1325 del 22 febbraio 2022, e di straordinaria attualità in relazione a quanto sta accadendo in queste ore. Mi sembra difficile negarlo. Putin ha riconosciuto l’indipendenza delle due entità separatiste del Donbass, ha negato l’identità dell’Ucraina affermando che la sua separazione dalla Russia alla […]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The technology that allowed passengers to ride elevators without an operator was tested and ready for deployment in the 1890s. But it was only after the elevator operators’ strike of 1946—which cost New York City $100 million—that automated elevators started to get installed. It took more than 50 years to persuade people that […]
ASIA A divide is emerging between how the Asia Pacific region has responded to the Omicron wave of COVID-19, and how North American and Western European countries have responded. East Asia Forum, Jeremy Youde: Asia’s cautious approach to Omicron AUSTRALIA One of the former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials involved with a new […]
AFGHANISTAN The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked with overseeing the military’s transformation. Latifullah Hakimi, head of the Taliban’s Ranks Clearance Commission, also told a news conference on Monday that they had repaired half the 81 helicopters and planes […]
Un risultato, nella permanente tensione geostrategica che si respira in giro per il mondo, è chiaro: lo smarrimento delle persone di fronte a una guerra perennemente annunciata alle porte dell’Europa. Che i rapporti di forza a livello internazionale siano in fase di ri-configurazione, peraltro non da oggi, è un dato con il quale dobbiamo fare […]
from: Al Jazeera, Asia Times, Corriere della Sera, East Asia Forum, Euractiv, Global Times, Reuters, RFE RL, RUSI, TASS, The Interpreter, The Strategist AFGHANISTAN The United Nations children’s agency says it will pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months. Salaries have been unpaid for months as the country plunged into economic crisis due […]
from: Al Jazeera, East Asia Forum, RFE RL, Reuters AZERBAIJAN Journalists hounded and harassed to the point where many have fled the country. Independent or opposition media shuttered or blocked online. Nearly all news media reaching the public controlled by the government. For years, media experts and others have been warning about Azerbaijan’s dire media landscape. […]