La Guerra Civile in Liberia - scempio ed esempio dell'Africa Occidentale

Introduzione

L'esperienza della guerra in Liberia permette di analizzare diverse caratteristiche che sono state spesso generalizzate a tutto il continente africano. Con la sola eccezione del colonialismo che non fu mai formalmente applicato, il processo storico liberiano (dall'esistenza stessa dello Stato fino alle conseguenze tipiche della logica della Guerra Fredda, dalle cause alle operazioni di guerra) ripresenta alcuni leit-motives tipiche di tutta l'Africa Occidentale: la logica neo-patrimoniale dello Stato, la politicizzazione della diversità etnica, il cleavadge capitale-periferia con l'assoluta centralità della prima a scapito della seconda, gli effetti destabilizzanti della fine della Guerra Fredda.
Il fine di questo lavoro consiste non nel demistificare questi concetti, ma nel re-inserirli all'interno di un contesto preciso e definito, per coglierne maggiormente sia punti di forza sia debolezze.
Sotto il profilo metodologico, si preferirà un approccio storicamente lineare in cui particolari eventi storici verranno interpretati con la lente dei suddetti concetti.

Kaliningrad Factor on the Agenda of the Baltic States – Kaliningrad Status: Military Fortress or Russian Bleeding Wound? –

The Kaliningrad region has its predominant importance for geopolitical reasons. In fact with the end of the Second World War the Kremlin established a gigantic military base in the region to perform security-related issues:

• To isolate the Baltic States from the West;
• To ensure the security of the satellite States in Central Europe;
• To deter the “imperialistic” West;

National Sovereignty & External Sovereignty

National Sovereignty and External Sovereignty

Introduction
As the title of the essay suggests, here we have to make a distinction between national and external sovereignty. This kind of division is far to be the only one settled in the international context, and there are different expressions of the concept of sovereignty. Even if there is more than one, the concept remains the same and all the categories are different facets of the same idea. Therefore I will structure my essay by analysing the definitions of sovereignty especially throughout the numerous challenges that this concept is facing nowadays.

European Integration & International Relations Theories

European Integration and Theories in International Relations

Introduction
With the beginning of the integration process in Western Europe in the early Fifties numerous theories have been developed in order to study and understand this process. Those theories provide explanations and concepts useful to appreciate the past and to predict the future steps of eventually further integrations.

‘TRADE, NOT AID’

'Trade, Not Aid'A slogan that has been endorsed for long by developing countries in International Trade Negotiations; What is the impact of trade and is it the most important facet of globalization upon this group of countries?

Angelo Carlo Valsesia

Introduction
From the title of the essay as such we can hypothesize that the question that the essay pones is of Hegelian matrix: the thesis is constituted by the ‘Aid’, the antithesis is the ‘Trade’ instead. To say which one of them is the most beneficial is not an easy question, and probably it is not correct to put one above the other (as more important) too. What I will try to demonstrate is that ‘aid’ and ‘trade’ are both necessary – in different aspects – for developing countries.