As Chinese leaders endeavor to maintain the international environment aligned with their strategic aim of realizing the "dream of national rejuvenation," the remarkable increase in China's capabilities, coupled with uncertainty in the global economy and the ambivalent attitude of the USA toward...

The fifth generation of leaders (s)elected by the XVIII congress of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012 takes the helm of the Party and the People’s Republic of China at a time of structural transformation of the international system. Having long advocated a departure from the...

Italian Abstract: Luca Gori ha realizzato uno studio meticoloso e sofisticato del "Pivot to Asia", la più ambiziosa innovazione nell'indirizzo della politica estera USA perseguita durante la prima Amministrazione Obama. La Prefazione dialoga con il lavoro di Gori, ragionando su come questa...

Sino-Italian bilateral relations are eminently economic in their focus, with trade and investments working as the main drivers of engagement. Two distinctive features have marked economic interaction in recent years: a pattern of asymmetrical competition, and an asynchrony of opportunities in...

This essay analyses Sino-Italian relations against the background of the increasing salience of the West Asia and North Africa region in Rome's and Beijing's strategic calculus. As China projects westward through its New Silk Road strategy, culminating at the intersection of the Mediterranean...