Dario Cristiani
Former Resident Senior Fellow
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Dario Cristiani is a former Resident Senior Fellow at GMF.
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January 17, 2025
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June 18, 2024
The European Parliament election on June 6-9 saw overall gains for right-of-center parties without a feared surge toward the far right. Across...
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June 3, 2024
The Kremlin continues to blame Ukraine for the March 2024 attack on a music venue in Russia by Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K). This linkage shows that,...
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March 4, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's decision to inaugurate her country’s G7 Presidency from Kyiv conveyed a strong message both internationally...
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August 2, 2023
GMF experts react to the Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto's announcement of Italy's intention to leave China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...
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November 15, 2022
In recent weeks, European capitals looked at the news from Washington with varying degrees of expectation and anxiety in view of the Republican Party...
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September 26, 2022
Italy’s elections produced a clear verdict and a right-wing coalition will form the next government....
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January 6, 2022
As 2022 begins, eyes are trained on the Ukraine-Russia border as the potential for Russian escalation looms large. ...
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November 15, 2021
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September 28, 2021
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August 19, 2021
During his first six months in office, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has notched several key accomplishments....
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July 16, 2021
On 23 June 2021, Germany hosted the follow-up conference of the Berlin process launched in January last year....
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July 16, 2021
Migration can easily find its way back to the top of the European political agenda even in the context of the pandemic....
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May 7, 2021
In Libya, it is not the moment to ‘sit back and relax’, thinking that the birth of the Government of National Unity (GNU) is enough....
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May 7, 2021
Turkey’s role in Libya has been crucial over the past two years....
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April 2, 2021
Winds of change are blowing in North Africa and the Middle East....
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April 2, 2021
In his first moves in foreign policy, President Joe Biden has shown the ambition to bring “diplomacy back” and put the United States back to the...
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April 2, 2021
The United States wants to avoid losing Erdogan despite all the problems and keep Turkey in the Euro-Atlantic perimeter of alliances, but the new...
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December 21, 2020
Tunisia is approaching the tenth anniversary of its 2010-2011 Jasmine revolution while facing one of the most challenging periods of its post...
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December 21, 2020
The tensions between Europe and Turkey are destined to last....
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November 23, 2020
On October 23, 2020, negotiators from the 5+5 Joint Military Commission, the dialogue format between the forces of the UN-recognized Government of the...
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November 9, 2020
In 2011, Tunisia and Algeria both experienced political instability, but their situations—and the outcomes of this instability—were very different....
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October 20, 2020
One of the most noteworthy geopolitical developments of the past few years is the visible emergence, or better the return, of multipolarity in the...
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August 17, 2020
Exactly one year after his appointment, the Mauritanian prime minister Ismail Bodde Ould Sidiya resigned, and President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani...
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August 13, 2020
Tunisia is facing two major crises. One is institutional, as the government resigned and President Kais Saied tasked the outgoing Interior Minister...
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August 3, 2020
To describe the recent surge in the arrivals of migrants from Tunisia to Italy, some people in Italy draw a comparison with what happened in the early...
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June 16, 2020
As the novel coronavirus crisis unfolded in Italy, several countries came to the rescue, and among them, Russia played a crucial role (see ...
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May 8, 2020
The announcement that Aguila Saleh, the speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, made, on Apr...
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April 9, 2020
In the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Italy, the country has become the target of a number of foreign diplomatic and public relations...
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April 7, 2020
The first months of 20...
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April 2, 2020
Introduction...
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February 27, 2020
On February 7, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Italy for a two-day official visit, the first since his election last April....
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February 24, 2020
Every time there is a European conference on Libya, the dominant feeling is the same: the Europeans seem to be more interested in the process—the mere...
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February 20, 2020
The "expansive" and "qualitatively peculiar" Italian contribution to international missions should be seen in the broader perspective of Italian...
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February 10, 2020
Over the past few months, diplomatic activism around the Libyan civil war has intensified sharply. Two dynamics drove this process....
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November 22, 2019
The Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum, held on October 23–24, in the Russian resort city of Sochi, displayed Moscow’s renewed ambition to play a...
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October 15, 2019
In describing the results of the first round of Tunisia’s Presidential elections, many citizens made reference to an ancient Tunisian saying – ...
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This analysis is produced in the framework of the IAI-GMF Fellowship on Italian foreign and defence policy. ...
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The Edge of the Cliff...
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This analysis is produced in the framework of the IAI-GMF Fellowship on Italian foreign and defence policy. ...
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Russia’s return as a major geostrategic actor in the Mediterranean is one of the most significant trends characterizing this area over the past few...
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In January 2020, IAI/GMF Fellow Dario Cristiani met in Tunis with the secretary-general of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), Taieb Baccouche, a long...
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This analysis is produced in the framework of the IAI-GMF Fellowship on Italian foreign and defence policy. ...
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The recent Berlin conference on Libya confirmed that European countries do not call the shots in that country—something that has become more and more...