Con alcuni miei commenti 👇

"I've been doing this for 30 years. Nothing prepares you for Gaza" news.un.org/en/story/202...

Nel consueto silenzio mediatico... "DELIBERAZIONE DEL CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI IN MERITO ALLA PARTECIPAZIONE DELL’ITALIA A ULTERIORI MISSIONI INTERNAZIONALI PER L’ANNO 2026" www.senato.it/service/PDF/... Qui la: "RELAZIONE ANALITICA (missioni 2025 e proroga 2026) www.senato.it/service/PDF/...

My contribution "The Italian Job: Designing the First National Security Strategy" to the latest policy paper by ISPI: "Strategy-Making for Policy-Making across Europe" . You can download the report here 👇 strategy-making-for-policy-making-across-europe-237279

This week, the Inter-university Research Center CRISP (Conflict Resolution, International Security and Peace) was established! crisp.unifi.it

"The EU’s current approach to conflict, which increasingly involves supporting efforts to achieve peace through military force, risks making things worse in Africa" www.cer.eu/insights/eu-...

Sul n. 175 di Formiche Airpress, “The AI Battlefield”, con Mattia Sguazzini abbiamo pubblicato un breve articolo su intelligenza artificiale, warfare e adattamento organizzativo airpress.formiche.net #AI

It was not hard to forecast this hybrid, very low-key wind of change — we predicted how her government was gonna be in this 2023 issue www.tandfonline.com/toc/rita20/1...

‘Democrazie forti’. Marco Minniti, ‘Il Corriere della Sera’. Illustrativo, NO?

One of the sharpest mil phrases i learned: don't reinforce failure. Put your resources into something that is working

Here, none of that. @abuaardvark.bsky.social describes the shock in the Gulf at the US inability to protect countries to which it had made security promises, if not treaty commitments. One may think the US should not be in the Gulf, but this is chaos. 8/ foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

Per chi fosse interessato ai temi del riarmo in Europa, con analisi, dati, grafici, link a documenti ufficiali e letteratura recente. 👇 "IL FUTURO DEL RIARMO. Cause, costi e dilemmi di una svolta storica" www.ispionline.it/it/il-futuro...

@fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social & Mattia Mazziotti di Celso 'All’inizio del 2022, pochi giorni prima che la Russia invadesse l’Ucraina, il governo tedesco annunciò l’invio a Kiev di 5000 elmetti.' Poi la storia ha preso un'altra piega... www.ispionline.it/it/il-futuro...

Defense spending in Europe. Italy as an outlier. ecfr.eu/publication/...

Un mio breve commento sulla guerra in Ucraina, dal punto di vista diplomatico e militare. www.la7.it/tagada/video...

Un mio commento sul tema (Artico, Groenlandia, Trump, Europa) youtu.be/Mf0dOyW2SMA?...

Has Trump announced yet that he had to invade Minneapolis because Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize?

We start the new year with an #IDEoPOP workshop on #populism and security by our PI, @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social. We received very interesting insights into Fabrizio's research results, particularly on the case of Italy. Thank you for the lecture! #MSCA #foreignpolicy

Every time someone says “geopolitics” or “geoeconomics” god electroshocks a kitten.

This is a first, very rough draft of something much, much longer that I think I’m gonna have to write. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/anarchy-is...

‘They are killing us’: authorities use force against protesters in Kurdish regions of Iran

Trump’s no-guardrails foreign policy raises big questions about the global order, not just about who will run Venezuela. So, what happens now? @profsaunders.bsky.social breaks down five key points you need to know. Read: goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...

📝 (6) The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine by Vignoli & @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack) open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...

“Transatlantic loyalty first”. The note issued by 🇮🇹 on #Venezuela may appear surprising ("a legitimate defensive intervention against hybrid attacks"), but only up to a point. As on other issues (see lnkd.in/dBxWWSMS), “Italy has no intention of supporting initiatives not aligned with Washington"

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I wrote about how we have the foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship right before he attacked Iran in June. A consequence of unchecked executive power: more military misadventures. 3/ www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Two people confirmed dead as Iran protests turn into ‘battlefield’

Ottima intervista di @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social su #Ucraina, #Italia, #Nato e #UnioneEuropea www.play2000.it/detail/140?e...

#ESSC2026 | Save the date! Thrilled to announce that the European Security Studies Conference is taking place on 11–12 June 2026 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social The conference is jointly organised by COST Action NetSec, @eissnetwork.bsky.social , & @stockholm-uni.bsky.social eiss-europa.com/2026.html

See the piece below and also this week’s New Yorker podcast with these same three political scientists on the state of American democracy. I continue to learn a lot from them www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

One of the challenges that #IDEoPOP researchers face is the classification of populism. This newly published project offers a very relevant categorisation of populist political parties in Europe. It will surely inspire our PIs and PhD candidates!

Webinar: Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine: A Multinational Force in the Making www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

Mmm, I've read about a "realistic NSS","realistic foreign policy". That reminds me of something...(context: 1935, more here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

There is one striking incoherence in the text: the document is all about America first. But the very same document lists America’s “network of alliances” & “unmatched softpower” as assets, and speaks about “collective defence”. If the US does what it describes in the doc, it will lose all that.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Sometimes people tell me that I exaggerate when I say that the US openly hostile towards Europe. The NSS speaks a very clear language though, and it is a hostile one.

PS: But in the NSS there is reason for „great optimism“ because the patriotic parties of Europe will save Europe. So don‘t you despair, my fellow European!

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

"Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine Tracker" (You'll find also our contribution on the case of Italy) @nupinytt.bsky.social www.nupi.no/en/projects-...

Useful to (re)read after the words by Cavo Dragone. "Countering hybrid threats: How NATO must adapt (again) after the war in Ukraine" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Really interesting 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Per chi fosse interessato, una mia analisi sul tema della "leva volontaria" (🤦‍♂️) per la Radiotelevisione svizzera (dal minuto 17) www.rsi.ch/play/tv/tele...