Matteo Fraschini Koffi 7 March 2022
Competition between European and Chinese investments in Africa has become fiercer. Can African nations turn that into new opportunities for sound growth?
Analyses
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Giovanni Panzeri 19 May 2022In recent decades the world has gradually understood the importance of transitioning to a clean energy economy, buoyed by the prospective of catastrophic environmental collapse. However, few know that this transition largely rests on the employment of a few critical minerals whose global demand is set to skyrocket in the near future. Of particular importance in this case are the so called “rare earth” minerals, which have been at the center of US-China tensions on trade and technology in the recent decade. This article will give a brief account of the current situation regarding the rare earth elements supply chain and how it has been at the center of Us-China competition. - Giovanni Panzeri 12 May 2022In the present world computers, cars, phones, televisions, refrigerators have become commodities which are so present that it is difficult for many to imagine a life without them. All these items work thanks to tiny devices called semiconductors. But what are they? How are they produced? And how have they ended up at the center of the present US-China trade war? This article will attempt to give a brief account of the present US-China competition on semiconductors, how it is affected by external factors like the Covid-19 pandemic, and what it might entail for the future.
- Lorenzo Berardi 6 May 2022Once close allies, Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are now taking different sides towards Russia. Yet in energy terms, they face the same challenge.
- Jürgen Habermas 6 May 2022World-renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas reflects on the West’s dilemma in framing its political and military response to Putin’s war on Ukraine
- Mariano Giustino 29 April 2022Osman Kavala, the most important representative of Turkish civil society, has now been sentenced to life in prison, for having financed and supported the Gezi Park movement and having allegedly played a role in organising the attempted coup d’état of July 15th, 2016. Other 7 accused, all human rights activists including Can Atalay, Mücella Yapıcı, Çiğdem Mater, Hakan Altınay, MineÖzerden, Tayfun Kahraman and Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi, will have to face 18 years in prison.
- Gianni Del Panta 27 April 2022From Algeria to Tunisia, from Libya to Egypt, the conflict in Ukraine is having a profound impact on the MENA region – in very different directions.
- Maria Tavernini 11 April 2022The socio-political turmoil is intensifying in the island country south of India, hit by a dire economic crisis. Citizens want the ruling Rajapaksa family to quit after decades.
- Yes, liberal democracies do need to build up a cohesive alliance to counter the threats – militarily and in the war of ideas – that are posed by aggressive authoritarianism, but without falling into two dangerous pitfalls – the author of How Democracies Die warns: to inadvertently bring all illiberal regimes into a united geopolitical front, and to think that the threat of personalistic despotism is just somewhere “out there”, and not also within the fragile corps of Western democracies themselves.
- Fabio Turco 31 March 2022Hungarians head to polls this Sunday, in a most degratated democratic framework. Hid from view by mainstream media, opposition candidate Márki-Zay struggles to compete.
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