12 Mar 2020

Work in Progress. The End of a World, part II

ISPI Report 2020

A world has ended. It was the world we once knew, the liberal world of Western hegemony that emerged in the aftermath of WW2 and that we thought had triumphed when the Cold War finished. Today, we live in a period of transition to a new world, the shape of which we cannot yet clearly discern. Ours is an age of ‘work in progress’, of the gradual construction of a yet undefined international order.

ISPI’s 2020 Report is an attempt to decipher this incompletely formed world by exploring three questions. Who are the key actors working on the construction of the new international order? In what areas are they working, or rather competing and collaborating? And what shape does this competition and collaboration assume on the regional chessboards of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America?

This Report is edited by Alessandro Colombo and Paolo Magri
 

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Alessandro Colombo, Paolo Magri
 

Part I – The Stakes

1. The Decline of the Liberal Order and the Rise of China, Alessandro Colombo

2. Multilateralism Between Crisis and Revival, Andrea Locatelli

3. The Economic and Financial World: Globalising or Fragmenting?, Franco Bruni, Lucia Tajoli

4. Competition in the "Global Commons" (Sea, Air, and Outer Space), Emidio Diodato

5. The Hunt for the Strategic Resources, Ugo Tramballi

Part II – The Playing Fields

6. Asia, Guido Samarani

7. Africa, Giovanni Carbone

8. Latin America, Loris Zanatta

9. Middle East, Armando Sanguini
 

Part III – The Players

10. The United States and China: An Inevitable Conflict?, Mario Del Pero

11. Russia Between US and China An Inconvenient Third Power?, Aldo Ferrari 

12. The European Union and the Arduous Search for the "Geopolitical" Role, Sonia Lucarelli

"G Zero", Italy and National Interest, Giampiero Massolo

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