Here, none of that. @abuaardvark.bsky.social describes the shock in the Gulf at the US inability to protect countries to which it had made security promises, if not treaty commitments. One may think the US should not be in the Gulf, but this is chaos. 8/
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
Per chi fosse interessato ai temi del riarmo in Europa, con analisi, dati, grafici, link a documenti ufficiali e letteratura recente.
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"IL FUTURO DEL RIARMO. Cause, costi e dilemmi di una svolta storica"
www.ispionline.it/it/il-futuro...
@fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social & Mattia Mazziotti di Celso
'All’inizio del 2022, pochi giorni prima che la Russia invadesse l’Ucraina, il governo tedesco annunciò l’invio a Kiev di 5000 elmetti.'
Poi la storia ha preso un'altra piega...
www.ispionline.it/it/il-futuro...
No Zeitenwende in Italy…only camouflage/obfuscation
Defense spending in Europe. Italy as an outlier. ecfr.eu/publication/...
Un mio breve commento sulla guerra in Ucraina, dal punto di vista diplomatico e militare.
www.la7.it/tagada/video...
Un mio commento sul tema (Artico, Groenlandia, Trump, Europa) youtu.be/Mf0dOyW2SMA?...
Has Trump announced yet that he had to invade Minneapolis because Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize?
We start the new year with an #IDEoPOP workshop on #populism and security by our PI, @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social. We received very interesting insights into Fabrizio's research results, particularly on the case of Italy. Thank you for the lecture!
#MSCA #foreignpolicy
Every time someone says “geopolitics” or “geoeconomics” god electroshocks a kitten.
"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a first, very rough draft of something much, much longer that I think I’m gonna have to write. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/anarchy-is...
‘They are killing us’: authorities use force against protesters in Kurdish regions of Iran
Trump’s no-guardrails foreign policy raises big questions about the global order, not just about who will run Venezuela.
So, what happens now? @profsaunders.bsky.social breaks down five key points you need to know.
Read: goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...
📝 (6) The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine
by Vignoli & @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
“Transatlantic loyalty first”. The note issued by 🇮🇹 on #Venezuela may appear surprising ("a legitimate defensive intervention against hybrid attacks"), but only up to a point. As on other issues (see lnkd.in/dBxWWSMS), “Italy has no intention of supporting initiatives not aligned with Washington"
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
I wrote about how we have the foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship right before he attacked Iran in June. A consequence of unchecked executive power: more military misadventures. 3/ www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Two people confirmed dead as Iran protests turn into ‘battlefield’
Ottima intervista di @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social su #Ucraina, #Italia, #Nato e #UnioneEuropea www.play2000.it/detail/140?e...
#ESSC2026 | Save the date! Thrilled to announce that the European Security Studies Conference is taking place on 11–12 June 2026 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social The conference is jointly organised by COST Action NetSec, @eissnetwork.bsky.social , & @stockholm-uni.bsky.social eiss-europa.com/2026.html
See the piece below and also this week’s New Yorker podcast with these same three political scientists on the state of American democracy. I continue to learn a lot from them
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
One of the challenges that #IDEoPOP researchers face is the classification of populism. This newly published project offers a very relevant categorisation of populist political parties in Europe. It will surely inspire our PIs and PhD candidates!
Webinar: Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine: A Multinational Force in the Making www.nupi.no/en/events/20...
Mmm, I've read about a "realistic NSS","realistic foreign policy". That reminds me of something...(context: 1935, more here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)
III. What Are America's Available Means to Get What We Want? America retains the world's most enviable position, with world-leading assets, resources, and advantages, including: … • A broad network of alliances, with treaty allies and partners in the world's most strategically important regions; • Unmatched "soft power" and cultural influence;
There is one striking incoherence in the text: the document is all about America first.
But the very same document lists America’s “network of alliances” & “unmatched softpower” as assets, and speaks about “collective defence”.
If the US does what it describes in the doc, it will lose all that.
