INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES – 2017
Impasse Iran
TURIN, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università degli Studi of Turin – Circolo dei Lettori
The US withdrawal from the Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) and the re-imposition of sanctions ordered by Trump caused major difficulties to Iran, intensified its domestic clashes, exacerbated its popular discontent. Europe, Russia, and China seem uncapable of counterbalancing the American decision, nor of offering guarantees to investors. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been purchasing arms and weapons from the USA worth hundred billion dollars.
Erdoğan’s Turkey. The Narrow Ridge Between the West, Russia and Neo-Ottoman Aspirations.
TURIN, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università degli Studi of Turin – Circolo dei Lettori
Dopo il referendum del 16 aprile 2017, Erdoğan ha ottenuto poteri pressoché assoluti. Continua lo Stato di Emergenza, proclamato a seguito del tentativo di colpo di Stato del 15 luglio scorso, con arresti incessanti.
The Middle East between Trump and Putin. What Role for Europe?
TURIN, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università degli Studi of Turin
While Putin’s Russia is expanding and beefing up its presence in the Middle East, thereby becoming Syria’s patron in alliance with Iran and Turkey, Trump has announced the complete withdrawal of US troops from the country, letting the victors divide the country in zones of influence.
Sub-Saharan Africa. The challenge of equal development. Energy, environment, natural resources, networks, technological innovation.
MILAN, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
The role of sub-Saharan Africa in world trade has become increasingly more prominent. The rhetoric of the continent torn apart by violence and poverty is giving way to the new rhetoric of a dynamic, opportunity-rich region, which is not exempt from contradictions.
The Middle East. The cross-fate region
ROME, Zuccari Room, Palazzo Giustiniani at Senate of the Republic
The central-eastern Mediterranean has been home to several crisis hotspots that must be faced, managed and overcome. Natural resources – especially energy and water -, environmental issues, technological innovation, and the Blue Economy are veritable starting points for going beyond conflicts.
Regional Cooperation and Development of Energy Resources in the Central-Eastern Mediterranean
ROME, Sala Capitolare of the Senate of the Republic, Chiostro del Convento di Santa Maria della Minerva
Not only are the abundant hydrocarbon reserves discovered off the coasts of Israel, Cyprus and Egypt a crucial component of the EU energy diversification strategy, but they also offer the opportunity of launching a stabilization and integration process on the regional scale, which was long cause of political tension among the riparian states.
Betting on Iran
MILAN, Conference Hall of Palazzo Reale
Normalizing Iran’s relation with the rest of the world is regarded a top priority not just by President Rohani’s administration, but also by the vast majority of Iranians, who – as demonstrated by the results of the parliamentary elections in February 2016 – aspire to better economic conditions and to international recognition of Iran as a legitimate and important global player.
The Maghreb between national compromise, static uncertainty and tribal dissolution. The political dimension and the economic consequences.
MILAN, 7 October 2015, UniCredit Tower Hall
The Mediterranean area, and notably the Maghreb, undoubtedly represent one of Italy’s priority contexts of action.
A Changing Middle East: The Restructuring of International Relations and the Crisis Hotspots.
MILAN, Conference Hall of Palazzo Turati, Milan
Changes in the Middle East are in full swing: old and new regional powers face themselves, from Iran to Saudi Arabia, from Egypt to Turkey, while the United States are withdrawing from the region and Russia is asserting its presence.
Turkey. What Foreign Policy in a Changing Middle East. 4th and last international conference for the cycle “Turkey Phenomenon”
MILAN, Conference Hall- UniCredit
The conference had the aim of providing updated information about a key player in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, an actor that had proved to exert its influence beyond the regional context.