La Settimana Mediterranea - 1/2025
Una selezione delle letture più interessanti e utili della settimana su questioni mediterranee, locali e globali
Prima “Settimana Mediterranea” dell’anno nuovo. Questa settimana c’è una sezione speciale dedicata a Jimmy Carter, morto a 100 anni il 29 dicembre 2024. La sua presidenza ha avuto un ruolo fondamentale nel definire molte delle dinamiche mediterranee più importanti degli ultimi decenni, due su tutte: la fine dell’Egitto come minaccia militare per Israele con gli accordi di Camp David del 1978 e l’avvento dell’Iran khomeinista nel 1979, fattore di devastante mutamento sistemico per l’intero quadro dell’Asia occidentale, con annessa l’epocale crisi degli ostaggi, il cui impatto politico-psicologico ancora oggi si fa sentire sull’approccio americano verso Teheran.
Per il resto, la Siria resta al centro dell’attenzione delle principali potenze mondiali; la distruzione di Gaza pone questioni sulla viabilità delle formule diplomatiche ancora oggi al centro, almeno retoricamente, di eventuali negoziati; in Turchia la questione curda si sta riaprendo in maniera sorprendente; nel Maghreb e nel Sahel la tensione sale tra Algeria e molti dei vicini (Mali e Mauritania dopo la visita del Presidente Mohamed Ould Ghazouani in Marocco); la Russia cerca sponde (in tutti i sensi) in Libia; gli Emirati Arabi Uniti si dimostrano sempre più presenti nel continente africano.
In Memoriam: Jimmy Carter (1924 - 2024)
In Memoriam: Jimmy Carter, United States Institute of Peace
The Legacy of Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy, Ray Takeyh & Gideon Weiss, Council on Foreign Relations
What Jimmy Carter Left Behind. The Foreign Policy Legacy of an Underappreciated President, Tom Donilon, Foreign Affairs
The Untold Story of Jimmy Carter’s Hawkish Stand on Iran, Ray Takeyh, The Wall Street Journal
Jimmy Carter: The father of Arab-Israeli normalization, Imad K Harb, Al-Jazeera
Carter’s Middle East peace legacy survives, but mostly in name, France 24
Jimmy Carter’s Mixed Record on the Middle East, TIME
President Carter and the Mideast: Long-ago success and lasting wounds, Los Angeles Times
The US president who shaped the modern Middle East dies aged 100, Dania Akkad, Middle East Eye
Jimmy Carter's life and legacy in the Middle East, Brooke Anderson, The New Arab
The Unraveling of Jimmy Carter’s Middle East, Alex Hobson, Newsline Magazine
How Jimmy Carter’s support for human rights helped win the Cold War, Daniel Fried, New Atlanticist – Atlantic Council
Sezione Standard
Medio Oriente & Nord Africa – Three seismic events that shook the Arab world in 2024, Wahid Abdel Maguid, Al-Majalla
Medio Oriente & Nord Africa – The F-35 and the Middle East—Complicated Doesn’t Begin to Describe It, Peter Suciu, The National Interest
Medio Oriente/Nazioni Unite – Amid Turmoil in Lebanon and Syria, What Future for UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East?, Tim Passmore, Just Security
Siria – Don’t Repeat in Syria the Mistakes of Afghanistan, AA.VV., Foreign Affairs
Siria – Disinformation campaigns could push Syria back to civil war, Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle
Siria – Syrian Islamist Rulers Shun The Taliban Governance Model, Abubakar Siddique, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Siria/Iran – How Iran Lost Syria, Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs
Siria/CCG: What role will the Gulf states play in shaping the new Syria?, Joze Pelayo, MENASource – Atlantic Council
Stati Uniti/Siria – Leave Syria to the Syrians. The U.S. has no national interest in this messy war, Doug Bandow, The American Conservative
Stati Uniti/Siria – Postwar Syria could go wrong in many ways. Here’s how the US can help it go right, Thomas S. Warrick, New Atlanticist – Atlantic Council
Stati Uniti/Israele – How Donald Trump Can Make Israel a Better U.S. Partner, Will Walldorf, The National Interest
Stati Uniti/Iran – U.S. Options for Iran Diplomacy in 2025, Kelsey Davenport, Just Security
Israele – The Illusion of Dominance: Israel’s Fragile Path to Peace, Nath Aldalala'a, RSIS Commentary, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Israele/Palestina – Netanyahu’s big win over the Axis of Resistance gives Palestinians a fatal blow, Claudia De Martino, Aspenia Online
Israele/Palestina – ¿Sobrevivirá la solución de dos Estados al nuevo orden regional?, José Vericat & Lucía Fernández, Royal Institute Elcano
Palestina – The Dis-Invention of Gaza, Zena Agha, Jadaliyya
Turchia – Turkey Cracks Down on Media Critics of Its Syria Policy, Hamdi Firat Buyuk, Balkan Insight
Turchia/Curdi – Turkey bets on jailed Kurdish militant to revive peace process, Ayla Jean Yackley, The Financial Times
Turchia/Curdi – Does the Fall of Assad Re-Open Turkey’s Kurdish Pandora’s Box?, Samuele Abrami & Riccardo Gasco, War on the Rocks
Algeria – Ahmed Attaf dévoile la position de l’Algérie sur la Syrie, Makhlouf Mehenni, Tout sur l'Algérie
Algeria/Mali – Mali-Algérie : le point de non-retour est-il atteint ?, Maceo Ouitona, Afrik
Marocco/Mauritania – Exploring the vital Strategic Relations Between Morocco and Mauritania, Jamal Laadam, Modern Diplomacy
Libia/Russia – Russia is making a fragile pivot from Syria to Libya. The West should beware falling into a new trap, Emadeddin Badi, MENASource – Atlantic Council
EAU/Africa – UAE becomes Africa’s biggest investor amid rights concerns, Rachel Savage, The Guardian