Section: Istituto Affari Internazionali (Italy)
Natural Gas in Italy: Features and Perspectives in Light of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Italy is one of the largest gas consumers in the European Union. Today, natural gas faces uncertainty on both the demand and the supply side. Climate policy, market competition and geopolitical developments have been conducive to some reconsideration about future gas demand. However, it still represents the quickest way to phase out more...
Powering Change. Italian and EU Energy Transition in Times of War
The war in Ukraine has severely affected the Italian – and the wider European – energy ecosystem, forcing Rome (and Brussels), to reduce dependence on Russian energy yet at the same time continue the green transition. Short- and medium-term strategies have been adopted to move away from Moscow-supplied gas and to curb overall demand....
Russia’s Climate Action and Geopolitics of Energy Transition
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly altered the outlook for Russia’s energy transition and created uncertainties on the global path towards net zero. In response to global economic shifts, Russia had begun taking steps towards decarbonisation, albeit without plans to depart from its hydrocarbon-based economic model in any...
The Implications of the Ukraine War for Europe and the World: What Role for EU Foreign and Security Policy?
The Partners of the JOINT Project,led by IAI, have organized a JOINT Public event for the 22nd of September 2022, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, both in Paris and online. …read more Source:: Istituto Affari...
Energy Unity or Breakup? The EU at a Crossroads
The European Union is once again at crossroads. Russia’s war on Ukraine and the energy crisis that ensured in its wake, the worst since 1973, are shaking the continent to its core. Coming on the heels of other recent disruptions – the 2008 financial and sovereign debt crisis, the so-called European migration crisis of 2015, Brexit and the...
Indonesia’s G20 Presidency and the War in Ukraine
At the end of June 2022, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) conducted a series of trips overseas. It was a week-long visit to Germany, Ukraine, Russia, ending in the United Arab Emirates. Jokowi’s visit to Germany corresponded with the G7 Summit, which often hosts the G20 Chairman. After the summit, President Jokowi visited...
More Integration, Less Autonomy: The EU in Europe’s New Order
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not just shattered what was left of Europe’s post-Cold War order. It has also defined the broad contours of Europe’s future order and consequently of the kind of peace such an order will be able to sustain.An armed peace, again …read more Source:: Istituto Affari...
The Russian Economy Is Muddling Through the Sanctions War
The transatlantic campaign of sanctions against Russia after its aggression of Ukraine is unprecedented in scale and scope, involving not only dozens of democratic states but also many non-state actors. It imposes considerable barriers and additional cost to the functioning of the Russian economy, which is bound to undertake deep restructuring...
Focus euroatlantico n. 20 (febbraio-luglio 2022)
The second issue of the 2022 Euro-Atlantic Focus begins, as usual, with an analysis of the state of play in the transatlantic relationship (supplemented by a number of graphs and tables in the appendix) by Riccardo Alcaro. Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine has dominated the transatlantic agenda. …read more Source:: Istituto Affari...
Fattori d’impatto sull’innovazione tecnologica e sviluppo di capacità Dual-use della Difesa
At the time of writing, the role of the Armed Forces is being highly debated, amid the conflict between Russia and Ukraine which reached a phase of great intensity. The conflict’s implications on the operational models of the military instrument, as well as on investments, do not yet appear clear, but will likely turn out to be profound,...
