Su questo numero ci sono due articoli miei: uno sul Sinai e la problematica proiezione di sovranità del Cairo su questo spazio “chiave” ma storicamente riluttante al controllo degli “Africani della Valle del Nilo” e un altro scritto con la collega della LUISS Meryem Akabouch sui percorsi politici della Fratellanza Musulmana in Algeria e Marocco:
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2012 is going to be a rather important year for global politics, as there will be: presidential elections in the U.S., Russia and France; a leadership transition in China; the evolution/involution of the Arab Spring; the challenges faced by the Euro Zone and much more (North Korea, Afghanistan, etc etc). It is always interesting, at the beginning of every new year, to read and listen what experts say on the major challenges of the coming year and that what I usually do (at least since I have started dealing with this field….). Following, a list of articles and ideas on what we should watch out in 2012:
The point of Fareed Zakaria, one of current leading American thinkers (and in my opinion also one of the most brilliant: his “The Future of Freedom” is one of those books that every political scientist should read at least once in his life);
So, if there was an award for the “diplomatic dispute” of the year, the rising tension in Israeli-Turkish relations would indisputably win the prize, although 2011 is far from being over yet. The expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and the freezing of military cooperation could seriously represent the start of a new era of geopolitical balances, changing substantially the strategic architecture of the wider Mediterranean, as the Israeli-Turkish alliance was one of its cornerstones since the late ’90s. Following, some views on these fundamental developments:
Back online, finally. I was on a very short vacation in Italy for a few days but, after that, I had: a very limited access to the internet, then a little health problem and then some very important deadlines. Hopefully, from now on I will post regularly again. To start in the right way, a few interesting pieces I have read recently:
