April 2011 elections in Kazakhstan have reinstated the long-running strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev in power. Nazarbayev enjoys genuine popularity in the country with a resource-rich economy, political and social stability and inter-ethnic peace.
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15 maggio 2011
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On March 13, Russia held the last local elections before the general elections scheduled for December 2011 and the March 2012 presidential elections. As was widely expected, the dominant political party United Russia has confirmed its leadership in the polls. Contrasted by the opposition’s criticism of the low democratic standards in Russia and accompanied by the modernization agenda promoted by President Medvedev, this victory prompts an analysis of the stability of the country’s political system.
15 maggio 2011
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China’s assertive international behavior during the recent global economic and financial crisis has raised an important question: has China abandoned its low profile foreign policy, adding a more assertive or indeed aggressive component to it?
This paper argues that while China is rising economically and militarily and increasing its global influence, it is still obsessed with defending what Beijing calls its “core interests” of direct relevance to regime survival, economic development and territorial integrity.
15 maggio 2011
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As China’s economy has grown, so has its international presence in a variety of areas, among which the military and security dimension is particularly important. This paper examines China’s increasingly important role both within Asia and at the global level by examining rhetoric, reality and perceptions.
15 maggio 2011
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China is arguably in the process of “rising peacefully” and is not - as parts of the literature suggest - a revisionist state. Furthermore, we have no reason to believe that China will jeopardize the economic and social benefits it has gained by accepting and adopting international norms, in attempts to subvert and change international norms and rules. Admittedly China is not a standard status quo state now, nor will it be so in the foreseeable future.
15 maggio 2011
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Like the US and Europe, China was caught by surprise by the Arab spring and had to abruptly adapt its foreign policy to events. China is learning from events in North Africa and the Middle East. Support for unstable regimes is something that can have a concrete and immediate negative impact on China’s interests abroad. Such situations can also lead to costly evacuations of the growing numbers of Chinese citizens now working for Chinese companies on large-scale projects around the world.
15 maggio 2011
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The migration from Africa towards Europe, in the present political, military and humanitarian context, represents a crucial variable for Europe. This is an issue not only for the Mediterranean Member States - which have to manage the flows of people migrating from Libya and Tunisia – but it is an issue also for the entire infrastructure of European governance.
15 maggio 2011
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For most of the postwar era, the world’s most important strategic relationship was that between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two super-powers threatened each other – and the rest of the planet – with the prospect of mutually assured destruction, as their bloated nuclear arsenals held out the possibility of destroying each other several times over.
15 maggio 2011
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China matters globally. Not only in international trade and economics, but also and increasingly in international politics and security, be in East Asia, Central Asia and further away from home in Africa, Central and South America. Along with China ‘going global’ in international politics comes a vivid and at times controversial debate in scholarly and policymaking circles on what kind of international actor China will become in the future.
09 maggio 2011
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Durante i continui sbarchi a Lampedusa e nel mezzo delle polemiche con l’Unione europea, il presidente Napolitano ha ricordato a tutti che c’è più bisogno di Europa, di un’Europa che parli con una sola voce. A prescindere da come la si pensi, è innegabile infatti che l’Unione europea semplicemente non c’è – o al massimo gioca un ruolo subalterno a quello degli stati – quando si tratta di temi estremamente delicati come la politica estera, la sicurezza, l’immigrazione.
09 maggio 2011