Una mia “Economic Brief” scritta per il P.I.N.R. sull’inaugurazione del gasdotto Bluestream sotto il Mar Nero, e le sue implicazioni geopolitiche.
L’articolo è stato ripreso anche da AsiaTimes Online.
Un’analisi scritta per il P.I.N.R. sui nuovi accordi tra Washington, Sofia e Bucarest per l’uso, da parte americana, di basi militari nell’area del Mar Nero.
Analisi scritta per il P.I.N.R. dopo le dichiarazioni di Jack Straw e di alti funzionari statunitensi riguardo la Bielorussia.
Pubblicato, per la rivista online “Libri”, il testo di una mia relazione su NATO e UE, esposta il 22 maggio del 2004 presso la Facoltà di Lettere dell’Università “La Sapienza”, di Roma.
Il testo è in formato PDF.
Un’analisi scritta per il P.I.N.R., in cui si cercano di prevedere i possibili esiti politici degli attuali disordini nelle periferie delle principali città francesi.
Articolo di approfondimento scritto per ISN-Security Watch.
Bilateral cooperation between Western Europe and Russia began back in 1989
with an initial exchange of information, small study contracts, and some ESA
experiments on Russian missions.In January this year, the ESA signed an agreement with Russia to enhance
cooperation over the use of facilities and information-sharing. According to
that deal, Moscow will be allowed to use the French Guyana base of Kourou to
launch future Soyuz and carrier-rockets.Last year, Moscow decided to extend, until 2050, the lease of Kazakhstan’s
Baikonur space site, currently the only site from which Russian manned space
flights to the International Space Station can be launched.Then, in July this year, the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin
approved a new space plan for the next decade, establishing among other things
that six volunteers would spend 500 days in a mock space module in Moscow. The
plan’s goal is also to raise funds for the construction of the Clipper.
Il 31 ottobre scorso, la “Piattaforma civica”, partito liberale, ha abbandonato i negoziati per la formazione di una coalizione di governo a Varsavia. Il Partito “Legge e giustizia”, quindi, dovrà far ricorso all’appoggio dei partiti “populisti”, come “Auto-difesa” di Andrzej Lepper.
Analisi scritta per il P.I.N.R., che segue quella dello scorso 28 settembre.
Articolo di Yevgeny Bendersky per il P.I.N.R. sul ruolo di Mosca nell’organizzazione di Shanghai.
China’s economic ambitions now span the globe and Beijing most certainly gives Russia a prime place in its decision-making strategy. While Russia does not feel the effects of closer cooperation with China — given Beijing’s still maturing status as an emergent power — the continuance of current demographic and social trends inside Russia might place it at a disadvantage vis-à-vis China fairly soon. The S.C.O. might serve as the main vehicle for China’s strength and Russia’s long-term weakness.
Given Russia’s historical desire for independence in global politics, it might find itself at odds with its closest partner that will be larger in every category except territory. Now, more than ever, there is a need to develop Russia’s economy so that it will not become yet another market for Chinese goods — however, while Russia’s economy grows every year, it still has not developed a strong domestic market for its goods and services. This — not its arms exports, or its oil pipelines — will eventually earn it a place among the world’s great powers. In the absence of such a development, Russia will become China’s junior partner, eventually losing its momentum as a dynamic country even with its growing exports of arms and natural resources.
