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"L'Europe, la Multipolarité et le Système International. Une nouvelle géopolitique mondiale" (Ed. VApress)

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With EU enlargement back on the political agenda, the West has an opportunity to revitalise its policy toward the Western Balkans. This June marked twenty years since the 2003 Thessaloniki Summit, where EU leaders declared that the “future of the Balkans is within the European Union.”

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Erdogan has announced a new perspective on foreign policy for Turkey’s second century. He has named the long-term foreign policy vision as the “Century of Turkey” and declared his determination for building a “Turkey Axis”.

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On 19 September 2023, opening the Annual General Assembly, UN Secretary General Guterres urged Statesmanship, not Gamesmanship and Gridlock to resolve global challenges and geopolitical tensions.

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Currently, there are about 281 million migrants living in a country other than their countries of birth, or 3.6 percent of the global population: that is, 1 in 30 people. More than 100 million of those were forcibly displaced by conflict, persecution, poverty, climate disaster.

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In the rivalry between the two powers, there will be a main zone of contention: South-East Asia. And although the region has drawn up no clear battle-lines, that only makes the competition more complex.

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At its founding (1945), the UN had 51 members and the UN Security Council (UNSC) consisted of the same 5 countries that serve as permanent members today, plus 6 nonpermanent members. In 1963, the number of nonpermanent members was increased to 10. Nowadays the UN has 193 members.

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BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and SCO ( Shanghai Cooperation Organization: China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan  ) have become a new pole of power in the world and their role is becoming more significant every day.

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On last October 26 a meeting was held at the Italian Mission to the United Nations (UN) with the Directors and Chiefs of Mission Support of UN peacekeeping operations  to thank them for their efforts to implement the environmental strategy of the Department of Field Support.

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