Europe is in the grip of a nuclear moment. As France initiates discussion of extended deterrence with multiple European partners, the debate has revived around the so-called ‘euronukes’ – the full spectrum of nuclear solutions… Read More »Posturing for What? Nuclear Weapons, Victory, and the Limits of European Strategic Thinking
Starting from the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War of 2020, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) took an increasingly important role in support and combat activities previously managed by manned systems, especially in the realm of airpower. Subsequent conflicts… Read More »Unmanned Skies: Drone’s impact on Contemporary Strategic Airpower
Operation Epic Fury demonstrated a fundamental vulnerability in Western air-defense strategy: the unsustainable costs of maintaining high-end kinetic defenses against low-cost mass-production. Moreover, it has formalized the emergence of an “Axis of Attrition”, a tripartite… Read More »The Brutal Calculus of War: Winning the Race of Cost-Efficiency
Il 4 febbraio 2022, il Presidente della Federazione Russa Vladimir Putin e il suo omologo cinese, Xi Jinping, sancirono formalmente l’avvento di una nuova “amicizia senza limiti”, presentata come superiore alla logica delle alleanze tipica… Read More »Amicizia senza limiti? La cooperazione sino-russa all’ONU nel quadro della crisi ucraina
Una linea di pensiero a lungo dominante nella teoria delle Relazioni Internazionali è quella per cui l’autosufficienza nel settore della difesa è considerata condizione imprescindibile per agire autonomamente a livello globale, poiché essa consente agli… Read More »Dall’autonomia alla proiezione globale: indigenizzazione ed export della difesa in India
The study of International Relations is currently grappling with a structural shift that traditional realism and liberalism struggle to fully capture. While constructivism, particularly through Alexander Wendt’s social construction of international structures, offers a framework… Read More »Evaluating Constructivist Theory and the Role of Anarchy: A Case Study of the EU and the Ukraine Conflict
Negli ultimi anni l’Unione europea si è trovata ad affrontare con crescente urgenza un interrogativo strategico essenziale: è possibile coniugare apertura economica e sovranità decisionale in un contesto globale in rapida frammentazione e sempre più… Read More »Autonomia strategica europea: ambizione geopolitica o dipendenza strutturale?
For decades, the international system has sought relief and protection through nuclear stability. Startingfrom the last phases of the Cold War, the two biggest nuclear weapons owners, Russia and the UnitedStates, have continuously provided the… Read More »From Bilateral Arms Control to Strategic Competition: The Transformation of Nuclear Stability after the New START
On 2nd March 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an address to the Nation from a ballistic missile submarine base in Brittany, wherein he declared a substantial augmentation in France’s nuclear capabilities. The initiative demands… Read More »France: new nuclear European role between ambitions and challenges
Dal 25 giugno 2025 l’Italia dispone, per la prima volta nella sua storia, di una legge organica interamente dedicata allo spazio. La Legge 13 giugno 2025, n. 89 (Normattiva, 2025) – nota ormai come “legge… Read More »La nuova Legge Italiana sullo Spazio: verso una governance strategica e sostenibile del settore
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