A group of armed Islamists gathered in Gao, northern Mali in 2012. Now such groups are seeking foothold in Togo. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images Folahanmi Aina, King’s College London The threat of violent extremism across West Africa has been on the rise in recent times. Boko Haram and the Islamic
La conferma di una politica soft nazionalista e filorussa in Serbia, le scintille nella Bosnia-Erzegovina e il malcontento nel Kosovo rappresentano la brace che arde sotto l’infodemia mediatica del conflitto russo-ucraino. Ospite di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, è Michael L. Giffoni, ex ambasciatore italiano in Kosovo. Perché
Paul Baines, University of Leicester As well as success on the battlefield, wars are often won or lost through information advantage. In the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we might have expected Russia -– an old hand at propaganda -– to have bested Ukraine early on. Russia’s deception operations have had a long history of global
Alexander Mihailov, University of Reading Russian energy giant Gazprom has completely cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. Both countries are apparently being punished for refusing Russia’s demand that they pay for their gas in roubles. Other EU countries have also refused to pay in Russian currency (doing so would provide a
Ukrainian refugees now arrive under the aegis of the ultra-fast special protection system, but regular reception centres are piling up hundreds of thousands of applications and rejecting many. Eva Belmonte, Ángela Bernardo, Miguel Ángel Gavilanes, Carmen Torrecillas, David Cabo, Lucas Laursen, April 4, 2022 Story originally published in Civio “The breakdown is brutal,”
Intervento di Michael L. Giffoni, Former Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, all’Accademia Tiberina, sezione campana e lucana, 27 aprile 2022 Il 24 febbraio 2022 resterà una data emblematica, di quelle che restano fisse nella storia e nelle relazioni tra popoli e nazioni, in questo mondo che sarà pure globalizzato ma purtroppo fatalmente immerso in
In 2020 we launched our first feature documentary Excluded inspired by direct-action activism on exclusion by a group of affected young people from the summer of 2018. In this documentary we wanted to platform the diverse voices of young people from across the UK with lived and learned experience of exclusion and to
EU Commission proposes directive to implement OECD agreement on global tax justice. Multinational corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are to pay a minimum tax of 15 % in the future. A tax shifting scheme is also to be adopted, obliging corporations to pay taxes where they generate their profits. Poland is
Could the former tweeter-in-chief make a Twitter comeback? Alex Wong/Getty Images Michael Humphrey, Colorado State University Any speculation about whether Donald Trump will return to Twitter after his permanent suspension in 2021 must begin with two caveats. First, we do not know for sure if, or when, the presumed new owner of the
Il conflitto in atto penalizza l’export italiano ma anche quei manager impegnati, in molte aziende, sul fronte internazionalizzazione. Ospite di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, è Giuseppe Vargiu, Presidente di UniExportManager. Quanto è conosciuta e utilizzata la figura dell’Export Manager nelle PMI italiane? Quale livello di preparazione hanno