Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Aircraft carriers continued at the apex of states’ maritime surface strength strategies in 2025, for national prestige, power projection, to deter and threaten, to cooperate and coerce. Maritime competition was evident during 2025 around maritime Asia, through the aircraft carrier strategy pursued by China and the response to […]
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Asia in 2025: Great power rivalry, contested polities, and global disorder
Anno di pubblicazione: 2026
From Monopoly to Dual Patronage: The evolution of Russian and Chinese influence in Central Asia (1991-2025)
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf This article examines the evolution of Russian and Chinese influence in Central Asia through the conceptual framework of Patron-Client Relations (PCRs). While Moscow traditionally held the role of regional patron by leveraging a wide spectrum of legacy ties, Beijing’s rising economic power and political ambitions have led […]
«We did not make a revolution to go backwards»: The Iranian women’s uprising of march 1979 and its systematic erasure from historical memory
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf This article reconstructs the genealogy of the Iranian women’s movement, establishing a critical historical linkage between the «Women’s Uprising» of March 1979 and the «Woman, Life, Freedom» (Zhina) movement of 2022. While the mass protests of 1979 have been systematically erased from official state narratives, this study argues that the 2022 […]
«Colonialism of a Dual Nature»: Fayez A. Sayegh, the Palestine Research Center and a Palestinian genealogy of the settler colonial paradigm
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf This article traces the intellectual genealogy of the analysis of Zionism as a form of settler colonialism, arguing that its core concepts were first systematically developed in the mid-1960s and early 1970s within Palestinian anti-colonial thought. Focusing on the contributions of the Palestine Research Center and, in […]
