Peacebuilding requires long-term and sustained efforts at all levels, and in some cases may have been complicated by the ways in which armed groups have strengthened their position through their response to the pandemic.
Agriculture and agribusiness still represent a crucial slice of most ASEAN member countries’ GDP. However, the sector is changing, increasingly leaving behind traditional, labour-intensive production and transformation processes in favour of more advanced and highly technological practices. And it is looking for partners.
[IT] È online il nuovo Approfondimento “La Cina: sviluppi interni, proiezione esterna” realizzato per l’Osservatorio di Politica Internazionale da T.wai in collaborazione con il Centro Luigi Bobbio per la ricerca sociale pubblica e applicata, progetto d’eccellenza del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società dell’Università degli Studi di Torino.
In recent years China has become a more central and dominant actor in the international arena at large and in the Middle East and Mediterranean region (“Mid-Med”) in particular. China’s current flagship project, the Belt and Road Initiative (“BRI”), in many ways, posits the Mid-Med as a focal area and hub.
Despite rapid intervention and a high level of community engagement, the scale of the damage suffered by the city of Beirut goes beyond the scope of the humanitarian response.
