Italian foreign-policy institute
관점별 · 2 takes across the edition
Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) · Italy · Lobito Corridor reaches the bidding phase as $4bn-plus is committed against a $5bn build
European framing: situates Lobito in Africa's own development agenda and Italy's Mattei-Plan infrastructure diplomacy, asking whether the corridor serves local industrialisation or just routes minerals to Western buyers.
“The Lobito Corridor and Africa's development agenda, whose development does it serve?”
ISPI · Italy · Syria's Kurdish integration deal half-built: 80% of SDF land ceded, implementation still tense
Reads al-Sharaa's offensive against the SDF as reshaping Syria's internal balance of power, Damascus consolidating control of the northeast at the cost of a durable Kurdish settlement.
“Al-Sharaa's offensive against the SDF has reshaped the balance of power, pulling most of the northeast under Damascus's control.”