Ambassador Giancarlo Aragona is a member of ISPI Scientific Committee. From 2011 to 2016 he was President of ISPI. After graduating in Law at the University of Messina, he joined the Italian Diplomatic Service in 1969. In 1972 he was appointed Second Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Vienna as a press officer. In 1974, he was posted as Consul in Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany).In 1977 he was appointed Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Italian Embassy in Lagos (Nigeria).
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L’Iran che entra nel 2023 è attraversato dall’intreccio di una duplice crisi sociopolitica, sintomo di lungo periodo della sostanziale mancanza di volontà e interesse della leadership di riformare un sistema politico che, come tipico dei regimi di stampo autoritario e semi-autoritario, rimane cronicamente concentrato sul fine ultimo di garantire la propria sopravvivenza.
Globalizzazione: è allarme rosso. Il messaggio arriva anche dal World Economic Forum di Davos. In effetti, dalla Grande Crisi del 2008 il commercio globale non si è mai ripreso. E, in un mondo sempre più frammentato, l’anno appena concluso è stato record per il numero di restrizioni al commercio in vigore: quasi 2.500, sei volte tante rispetto al 2009. Ma è forse troppo presto per dare per spacciata la globalizzazione. Ecco perché.
L’11 gennaio il Ministero della difesa russa ha annunciato la nomina del generale Valery Gerasimov – capo di stato maggiore dell’esercito - a capo delle operazioni dell’esercito di Mosca in Ucraina. Gerasimov sostituisce Sergei Surovikin, declassato a vice di Gerasimov.
Da settembre la Repubblica islamica dell’Iran è scossa da proteste e scioperi scatenati dalla morte di Mahsa (Jina) Amini, studentessa curda 22enne, avvenuta mentre era in custodia della polizia morale di Teheran.
The uprisings following Mahsa Amini’s death occurred nationwide and became the most relevant existential threat facing Iran’s ruling elite since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. While the uprisings were initially aimed at the state-mandated hijab, they soon grew into calls to topple the theocratic regime.
While the youth is the driving force behind the Iranian protest movement that began in September 2022, the generation born between the late Sixties and the late Eighties --- sometimes referred to as the Burnt generation – hasn’t remained on the side-lines as mothers and fathers have joined the protests as well. One photo that went viral on social media last October showed Roya Piraei, a young woman standing at the grave of her mother, 62-year-old Minoo Majidi, who was killed during the protests: her head was shaved, a lock of hair in her hand.
Recent developments in the Islamic Republic led to increased attention from a large part of the world and questions about potential scenarios that could affect the nation. Iran is a strategic country on the global stage for at two reasons. On the one hand, it’s in a geopolitical quadrant of indisputable relevance and, therefore, its policies provoke a profound effect both regionally and internationally.
Belgrado schiera l’esercito al confine dopo due settimane di blocchi stradali che ha esacerbato la tensione con Pristina. Ma per gli analisti un conflitto aperto è per ora improbabile.
The European Union needs to be strategic in its engagement with the outside world in 2023. This is particularly true in relations with the United States, China and Russia. That strategic engagement will involve making hard choices — choices that too often hide behind the phrases that show up in European strategy documents, like principled pragmatism, effective multilateralism, cooperative regionalism and strategic autonomy. Europeans have a strong sense of shared values.