Sempre più un gioco per grandi: E l’Europa?

Under the pressure of the more aggressive rhetoric of the new US administration, 2017 has uncovered the ever-increasing weight that the traditional dynamics between the great powers is regaining even in the international context of the 21st century. Contrary to the most optimistic forecasts and rhetoric of the first cold post-war period, the “big game” has regained the center of the stage, driven in part by the growth and renewed assertiveness of potential global competitors of the United States such as Russia and China, in it starts from the continuing crisis of the multilateral fabric of international coexistence and, in part even greater, from the decomposition of the regional system into increasingly autonomous arenas, within which the weight of the respective great local powers also grows. The ISPI 2018 Report questions this change, only partly offset by the good news that, over the last year, came from the international economy. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the global context, the second asks what place Europe can occupy in a “world of adults”, while the third addresses as usual to Italian foreign policy.