The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is regarded as the biggest free trade agreement
(FTA) ever signed. This mega deal involves fifteen countries of the Asia-Pacific region: the ASEAN group –
from where the pact officially originated – plus Australia, New Zealand, China, South Korea and Japan. The treaty
is expected to bring substantial advantages for ‘Factory Asia’, particularly for complex global value chains (GVCs)
– that is to say, for those goods and activities having more than one national border crossing in their production
processes.
[IT] Il 1° febbraio 2021 i generali del Myanmar hanno messo fine all’esperimento di democrazia “disciplinata”, a cui loro stessi avevano dato inizio appena dieci anni, prima realizzando un ossimoro politico: un colpo di stato militare quasi “a norma di legge”.
Giovanni B. Andornino (T.wai & University of Turin) is the author, along with Wang Qinghong, of the essay “Philanthropy and Social Innovation in China” in volume 2 of “China and the World: The Long March Towards a Community of Shared Future for Mankind” (Il Mulino, 2021).
EAO strategies are best understood as the result of multifarious and often contentious relations between differently placed actors of heterogeneous movements that reach deep into wider society.
This report offers an overview of the HS issues published in 2020, summarising the insights of a rich group of renown scholars, seasoned practitioners, junior researchers and activists on some of the most critical topics in the field of peace and security.