Con la conferma da parte del Congresso di John Kerry a segretario di stato della nuova amministrazione Obama va a posto un tassello importante nel puzzle della squadra di governo; questo proprio nel momento in cui, oltre alle crescenti tensioni internazionali, le incertezze intorno alla conferma di Chuck Hagel al Dipartimento della Difesa concorrono a rimescolare le acque non sempre limpide della politica estera statunitense.
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The post-Soviet space is fluid and competitive with many actors, besides Russia, chasing their interests. Recently, also China has
Inizia oggi il secondo mandato di Obama. La costituzione americana non gli permetterà, fra quattro anni, di ricandidarsi e libero da scadenze elettorali (salvo le elezioni di metà mandato) potrà cosi concentrarsi a definire i tratti dell’eredità storica che lascerà al termine dei suoi otto anni di presidenza.
To what extent has the French intervention weakened the African Union leadership on the Malian crisis?
Two years after the Revolution that toppled former President Ben Ali, where does the Tunisian transition stand? Which direction is the transformation process of Tunisian institutions taking? Do Tunisian people see real changes?
The 67-year old Thein Sein took office as Burma’s president in March 2011, after the country’s first election in 20 years in November 2010. Since then, he has led a process of reform in Burma, ruled for decades by a military junta of which he always was a key member and leader. When he took office he surprised the international community when he released political prisoners, limited censorship, legalized trade unions, promoted peace with ethnic minority insurgents and pushed through legislation on land reform and foreign investment.
The LDP is back. After three years in opposition, the Liberal-Democratic Party led by the party’s president Shinzo Abe won an impressive landslide victory in Japan’s general elections on December 16. The LDP won 294 seats in the Lower House (the parliament’s first chamber) while its coalition partner the New Komei Party won 31 seats in the Lower House. The governing coalition’s strength exceeds 320 seats, more than two-thirds of the total seats in the chamber.
The ever sage Lord Palmerston reckoned that «The function of government is to calm, rather than to excite agitation». That rather sums up Mario Monti’s approach. In his first year in government, he fulfilled the objective very effectively only to excite a great deal of agitation over his personal role in the future as his term in government came to an end. Next year there will certainly be much excitement around Monti before he resumes his more normal calming role.
L’attentato di Bengasi dell’11 settembre 2012 che ha comportato l’uccisione dell’ambasciatore statunitense Christopher Stevens ha riportato l’attenzione internazionale sul radicalismo islamico e sulle formazioni terroristiche a esso ispirate. Lo jihadismo armato non è morto con Osama bin Laden e ha battuto un colpo contro la potenza nemica per eccellenza, quegli Stati Uniti che, per mano dello stesso ambasciatore Stevens, si erano prodigati nel sostenere le milizie che hanno combattuto contro il regime di Gheddafi.
US-China relations will remain on their current track after the US presidential election and Chinese leadership transition. Both countries are too heavily invested in the bilateral relationship and understand the dangerous consequences if it goes off the rails. Still, while institutional pressures and national interests will press for continuity, there is always a chance that miscalculation or deliberate provocation will push the two countries toward conflict.