Russia Resisting Putin’s propaganda: successes and failures Since World War I, combatant parties have used propaganda to sway public opinion. Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine offers a vivid illustration of how propaganda has evolved into one ⋙
Russia Authoritarian regime and academic freedom in Russia: a conversation with Arseniy Petrov Co-authored by Ester Gallo (Associate professor at Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Trento). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not only Ukrainian academic circles but also ⋙
African Union Positioning “Africa”: extraverted agency amidst global (dis)order A spectre is haunting Africa: the spectre of African agency. Long denied, African agency is surfacing in new ways in the current context of the new global (dis)order and ⋙
Russia Kremlin’s spy mania and resistance in Russian academia With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many anti-war protests have taken place in Russia. As a result, many students and scholars have faced police violence and persecution. Maria Rakhmaninova is ⋙
Russia The Russian aggression to Ukraine: from imperial utopia to decaying dystopia What’s the imperial myth? It’s the mythological narration of a past that becomes the foundation of national identity, indicates, and legitimises the sphere of influence where the empire ⋙
Afghanistan China in Afghanistan: risks, interests and regional politics After nearly 20 years the United States and NATO withdrew their troops from Afghanistan at the end of August, abandoning their Afghan allies at the mercy of the Taliban, who ⋙
nuclear weapons The New START and the geopolitical (dis)equilibrium: what role for the EU? Nuclear weapons are perceived as an old story, especially after the end of the Cold War. The issue is still alive and still controlled by the United States and Russia. ⋙
Turkey From the “Zero Problems With Neighbours” doctrine to an aggressive foreign policy posture: a paradigm shift in Turkey’s regional strategy (2) Alongside the military intervention in Syria and the outbreak of renewed hostilities with the PKK, Turkey has also focused its foreign policy ambitions on Libya and the eastern Mediterranean. These ⋙
Turkey From the “Zero Problems With Neighbours” doctrine to an aggressive foreign policy posture: a paradigm shift in Turkey’s regional strategy (1) In the last decade, Turkish foreign policy has experienced a series of upheavals that have not only changed Ankara's behaviour towards foreign countries but have also affected the domestic political ⋙
nuclear weapons Long live the nuclear arms race? The end of nuclear taboo and the Chinese problem On November 3rd 2020, the Americans will choose their next president and the implications will influence the rest of the world’s political and economic affairs for the next four ⋙
Field Ukraine’s women at arms by Guntaj Mirzayev. Seven years into the war in Donbass, Ukraine is undergoing reforms in its security and defense sectors, also for what concerns women’s participation in the military. ⋙
Russia Anti-corruption protests in Russia The anti-corruption rallies that were organized all over Russia last 26 March open a new, uncertain phase in Russian politics. In 2011-2012, protests were pro-democracy, pro-Western and mobilizing mainly the ⋙
drugs policy Crime and the Drug Debate in the Russian Federation Once one abandons the concept that the security praxis of any state is ever politically ‘neutral’, the manner in which different states instrumentalize security policy in the generation of national ⋙
Debate Olympic Power The Games, the International Community and the Competition for Normative Power. The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics are not only a huge sport event, but also an arena for confrontation between ⋙
