Federico Bordonaro

Analisi del Jpost del 30 ottobre:

Israel was noticeably quiet Tuesday, a day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced a plan to build several nuclear power plants - a proposal heralded in the Egyptian press as a major national project.

Israel was noticeably quiet last Tuesday as well, the day French President Nicolas Sarkozy went to Morocco and pledged that France would help the country build a civil nuclear energy industry. This pronouncement came a day after Sarkozy met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Paris and took a forceful stand on stepping up sanctions to halt Iran’s nuclear program.

And Israel was noticeably quiet when Yemen signed an agreement last month with a US company to build nuclear plants over the last 10 years.

[. . .] The question of what would happen to this nuclear technology if, for instance, Mubarak died and Islamic radicals took power is an issue of real concern, but not one being discussed out loud.

Intervista per RFERL sulla visita di Ahmadinejad in Armenia e sui rapporti Russia-Armenia-Iran.

Il “rischio geopolitico” è il rischio per un paese, o per un’area, derivante dalla propria posizione geografico-politica in un dato momento storico. Conflitti identitari, ambizioni territoriali di potenze confinanti, competizione per le risorse energetiche, sono fattori che possono condurre a instabilità o guerre. Le conseguenze economiche e finanziarie sono il rischio geopolitico.

Se Ankara dovesse attaccare le postazioni del PKK nel Kurdistan iracheno, quali conseguenze economiche potrebbero derivarne? Ne parla Nicholas Birch su EurasiaNet .

Francia: i sistemi d’armi venduti al Pakistan potrebbero finire in mano cinese? Analisi scritta per Asia Times Online

The likelihood that France will sell missiles and radar for Pakistan’s JF-17 fighter aircraft - which is being developed jointly with a Chinese company - has far-reaching implications. The deal could circumvent the EU arms embargo against China and improve Beijing’s military capabilities in relation to Taiwan; and it risks US anger, indicating that below the surface, Franco-US rapprochement may not be as serene as appears