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east THE WORLD. PAGE AFTER PAGE
year XI · n. 58 · march april 2015
DIRECTOR
Benedetta Fabbri
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ADVISORY BOARD
Federico Ghizzoni (PRESIDENT),
Giuseppe Scognamiglio (VICE-PRESIDENT),
Reuben Abraham, Giuliano Amato, Umit Boyner,
Joschka Fischer, Silvia Francescon, Enrico
Giovannini, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Enrico Letta,
Myrta Merlino, Giovanni Moro, Attilio Maria
Navarra, Vincenzo Nigro, Fabrizio Onida, Pier Carlo
Padoan, Lapo Pistelli, Romano Prodi, Riccardo
Pugnalin, Alexei Pushkov, Giuseppe Recchi, AnneMarie Slaughter, Javier Solana, Boris Tadic, Danilo
Taino, Zuo Xuejin, Matteo Zuppi
Contents
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CORRESPONDENT COMMITTEE
Aldo Bonomi, Massimo Cacciari, Seyda Canepa,
Ferruccio De Bortoli, Francesca Gori, Lev Gudkov,
Ulrike Guérot, Wojciech Jagielski, Predrag Matvejevic,
Moni Ovadia, Soli Özel, Lucrezia Reichlin, Sergio
Romano, Gyorgy Schoepflin, Luigi Tomba
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Front page
no Comment
by Mana Neyestani
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
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Silvia Francescon, Francesca Nenci, Fabrizia Falzetti,
Roberta Ceccarelli, Simone Cofferati, Fabrizio
Goria, Nicholas Hunt, Barbara Modugno, Valentina
Pascucci, Claudio Patriarca, Ilaria Sbarigia, Silvia
Settecasi, Maja Kecojevic
EAST-WEST
the Caliph's Foreign Legion
by Giuseppe Scognamiglio
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Giuseppe Scognamiglio (PRESIDENT), Francesca Nenci
(DIRECTOR), Silvia Francescon (DIRECTOR), Simone
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NEWSROOM
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the Charlie effect
by Fadi Elhusseini
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the tables are turned
by Alberto Negri
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Is makes big money
by Francesca Nenci
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ART DIRECTOR
Claudio Patriarca - [email protected]
the Web as oracle
by A. Ceron, L. Curini, S. M. Iacus
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Flora Dicarlo - [email protected]
PHOTOEDITOR
europe
Ilaria Sbarigia - [email protected]
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITOR
Nicholas Hunt
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE REVIEW COMMITTEE
Brussels notebook
by Ann Cahill
Nicholas Hunt, Aminda Leigh, Natasha Senjanovic
TRANSLATORS
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Marina Astrologo, Teresa Ciuffoletti, Darcy Di Mona,
Helen Farrell, Alessandra Guidoni, Aminda Leigh,
Valentina Mazzei, Nicholas Neiger, Guiomar
Parada, Natasha Senjanovic
eU hits and myths
by Pagellapolitica.it
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WEBMASTER
Luca Pizzato - [email protected]
EUROPEAN UNION
the real Donald tusk
MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Theresa Lindo - [email protected]
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PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENCIES
Contrasto, Reuters, Getty Images
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BACK ISSUES
the eU, a legal requirement
by Patrizia De Pasquale
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
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POINT OF VIEW
Iran, from rogue state
to reliable ally?
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NEWSAGENT DISTRIBUTION
by R. Prodi and G. Cucchi
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BOOKSHOP DISTRIBUTION
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AIRPORT DISTRIBUTION
UKRAINE
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Putin's successful strategy
HOTEL DISTRIBUTION
by Paul Lendvai
P Publishing srl - www.johnsons.it
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COVER ILLUSTRATION: EMILIO GIANNELLI
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the ultras' role in the war
by Anna Zafesova
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DISTRIBUTION IN ITALY
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ESTONIA
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A small learned state
goes to vote
by Mara Gergolet
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TURKEY
the sultan's rivals
world
by Marta Ottaviani
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CYPRUS
elections across the Wall
by Giampaolo Cadalanu
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by Luca Borsari
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middle east and africa
79
by Francesco Anfossi
by G. Bertoluzzi and C. Spocci
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by Emanuele Colombo
by Gabriele Barbati
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How start-ups start
Riding the digital economy
by Federico Treu
90 CHINA
Xi Jinping's Imperial dream
by Federico Brusadelli
by K. Mezran and N. Pedde
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MIDDLE EAST & USA
93 JAPAN
Where to, Japan?
by Pio D’Emilia
America heading east?
Aladin, from sana'a to Rome
by Giovanni Piazzese
46
LIBYA
too many interests at stake
by Nanxi Liu
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asia
ISRAEL
elections and Us tensions
chronicles
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EGYPT
the Pharoah vs the Caliph
EUROPEAN CONSCIENCE
success in space
42
Us: hits and myths
by Luca Borsari
THE VATICAN
the Church splits over
new marriages
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Washington notebook
by Viviana Mazza
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Bank of Japan governor
the uphill struggle
of Africapitalism
by Fabrizio Goria
by Stella Morgana
IntervIew : Haruhiko Kuroda
96 TECHNOLOGY & RESOURCES
the Artic Conquest
NIGERIA
by Jacopo Pasotti
americas
98 ARGENTINA
A make or break year
DOSSIER: TTIP: TO bE OR nOT TO bE
by Jesus Rodriguez
100 CUBA
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PORTFOLIO
Trade globetrotters
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64 The Eurasian
economic union
TTIP - How
international trade
will change
66 The Turkish point
of view
by Carlo Calenda
68 South-south trade
denting northern
markets
by Soli Özel
60 Multinationals' double 71 The European Union
and its trade partners
standards
62 How strategic
is the Pact?
by Fabrizio Goria
75
FOOD & CULTURE
European gourmets
up in arms
by Elisabeth Roman
CULTURAL NOTEBOOK
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the ‘Yanquis’ are back
by Francisco Forteza
102 the devil's in the details
by Diana Ferrero
104 BAD GIRLS
the tsarina, the empress
and the Popess
by James Hansen
by Stefania Pensabene
by Alessia Mosca
by Francesco Guarascio
THE EAST BOOK
The crisis according
to Martin Wolf
by Michael Gross
MARKETS AND SOCIETIES
58 EU and US, together
for growth
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106 FINANCIAL TRENDS
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oil prices: winners and losers
by Erik F. Nielsen
MUSIC
The British Invasion
by Josef Janning
by Alberto Piccinini
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ENTERTAINMENT
From idiot box to empire
by Natasha Senjanovic
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