Since the ‘90s Qatar has managed to be a place where different entities could coexist, then offering itself as useful mediator with the international community, and especially with the US
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For Italy, for long a middle power working as a bridge in the Wider Mediterranean, this is about retrieving that connecting capability and use it towards the Global South
Sanctions fill the gap between diplomatic declarations and military interventions, which are particularly costly in humanitarian and financial terms
The Biden-Xi Summit in San Francisco doesn’t evoke the birth of a new G-2, yet it shows that the two biggest rivals in the world of today are trying to contain risks and manage their competition
The meeting will not change the direction of the relation, but convincing China to stop the shipping of chemicals used in Fetanyl production would by a (bipartisan) win for the US
Saudi Arabia still aims to be the leader and pivot of the wider Middle East and North Africa region, expecting to be the first port-of-call for external actors wanting to do business in the region
The key challenge for Europeans in their relationship with the US is the lack of a consensus on handling it, which impairs the development of a cohesive European foreign policy
Despite a wide consensus on the necessity to enlarge the EU, the majority of State Members is not yet in an advanced reflecting phase on how to concretely achieve it
We cannot think that Italy can compete in Africa with China, Russia, or the Gulf. Rome’s strategy in the continent must be integrated with Europe’s, and this seems to be Tajani’s idea as well.
In the Gulf countries, heavily hostile towards islamist movements, a critical line on Hamas’ responsibilities is emerging, in contrast with the rest of the Arab public opinion