Valeria Talbot is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Head of ISPI's Middle East and North Africa Centre, in charge of Middle East Studies. She also is a lecturer at the Master in Middle Eastern Studies in ASERI – Catholic University, and at the IULM University of Milan. She was ISPI scientific coordinator of Arab Trans, a FP7 funded research project on political and social transformations in the Arab World after the Arab uprisings in 2010-2011.
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Michael L. Giffoni (New York, 1965), da diplomatico di carriera dal 1992 al 2014 ha ricoperto numerosi e delicati incarichi nazionali ed europei. Dopo aver trascorso gli anni ’90 in Bosnia e nel resto dell’ex-Jugoslavia in guerra, è stato Capo della Task-force per i Balcani dell’Alto Rappresentante per la Politica estera Ue, Javier Solana, poi per 5 anni primo Ambasciatore d’Italia in Kosovo (2008-2013) ed infine (2013-14) Capo Ufficio per il Nord Africa e la Transizione araba al Ministero degli Affari esteri.
Claudio Bertolotti (PhD) is Director and Head of Research at Swiss-Italian company START InSight. His academic and professional research focus on terrorism, radicalisation, Intellicence, security in Mediterranean area, conterinsurgency, small wars and asymmetric conflicts in the MENA area (in particular Afghanistan Syria and Libya). Since 2015, he is Senior Researcher at the Centre Euromaghrébin de Recherches et d’Etudes Stratégiques (CEMRES) in Tunis and Italian Representative within the ‘5+5 Defense Initiative’ international research working group.
Il Libano non smette mai di sorprendere. Nei giorni prima delle elezioni parlamentari del 15 maggio, i media internazionali avevano previsto che le elezioni non avrebbero portato grandi cambiamenti.
As Russia’s war against Ukraine intensifies, US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, among others, have called for President Vladimir Putin to be excluded from the Group of Twenty (G20) annual meeting in Bali, to be held in November 2022.
The norm since the end of the civil war in Lebanon in 1990 has been for the population to pay two bills for a day’s worth of electricity: one to Électricité du Liban (EDL) — a public utility provider — and the other to the private generator of each neighborhood. Master plans were drafted yet never executed, much like the promised reforms of the electricity sector, which never materialized. Today, Lebanon faces multiple crises and is in free fall. Amidst the meltdown, the energy sector has been the most affected, with hour-long blackouts.