Since the National League for Democracy’s landslide November 2015 election victory, discussions on Myanmar’s future have taken an interesting turn. Once again, Aung San Suu Kyi is confronted with challenges that could potentially jeopardize her moral and political authority.
Institutions of security are critical for peaceful governance in states throughout the world. It is for this reason that so much funding is devoted to Security Sector Reform (SSR) in post-conflict peacebuilding. However, do such processes result in experiences of security?
As 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the very project of European integration
faces challenges and uncertainties.
[IT] Nel suo discorso di apertura al Belt and Road Forum, il Presidente Xi Jinping ha precisato l’entità dell’impegno finanziario del governo cinese per dare sostanza alle nuove Vie della seta: oltre 13 miliardi di euro aggiuntivi per gli investimenti del Silk Road Fund, 40 miliardi di euro per operazioni internazionali denominate in valuta cinese (yuan renminbi), e linee di credito da 50 miliardi di euro affidate a China Development Bank e Export-Import Bank of China per sostenere progetti in ambito infrastrutturale, industriale e finanziario nei paesi interessati dall’iniziativa di Pechino.
In a rapidly changing world, middle powers with no obvious role to play on the global stage have the difficult task to read the international environment in order to formulate and implement a coherent and possibly effective foreign policy. In order to do so, decision makers either reproduce old ideas or develop new ones. Considering the ideas put forward in their inaugural speeches by Prime Ministers and Foreign Affairs Ministers in office after 2001, we suggest that Italy’s institutional actors appear to be aware of the changes occurred in the international system after 1989, and in particular after 9/11.
