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IntroduzionePresso i primi studiosi di Relazioni Internazionali l'analisi della politica estera occupava un posto di minore importanza rispetto all'analisi di tutti quei fattori (moralità, diritto, ecc.) e processi (organizzazione, guerra, ecc.) internazionali che si riteneva costituissero la sfera tipica degli interessi dello studioso. Il decision-making approach costituí, perciò, al suo apparire una vera e propria rivoluzione, non tanto come inversione di tendenza — privilegiare l'analisi della politica estera — quanto come chiarificazione del campo attraverso il riconoscimento che anche la politica estera non è soltanto il risultato di forze, morali e materiali, contrastanti, quanto un campo caratterizzato da attori che adottano scelte motivate. Sul piano della ricerca ciò si è tradotto nell'analisi del comportamento degli attori nazionali e internazionali nel momento in cui essi affrontano delle scelte, selezionano dei corsi di azione alternativi, decidono e attuano le loro scelte.

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Fulvio Attinà examines the concept of "regional security partnership" both theoretically and in the context of Euro-Mediterranean region-building. He argues that this partnership is an intermediate venture on the road to the possible appearance of a Euro-Mediterranean security community. By discussing the difficulties of negotiating a security partnership in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Attinà highlights the security culture divide on both sides of Mediterranean. The differences in the security culture between European and Arab states have deepened in recent years in view of regional and global developments, constituting a major obstacle to the implementation of a security partnership. Attinà argues, however, that the interaction between the two shores of the Mediterranean in coping with globalization-driven problems may prevail over the factors that have led to a deepening of the security culture divide in recent years.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions. China has become known as the world's first factory and trading power, but more knowledge on China's rise is necessary to understand the world of today and the future. The main question is where China's rise is headed and how this affects the increasingly connected world that faces problems that no state can effectively address on its own. This book analyzes both sides of the coin, that is, the problems of a world scale and the change of the world political order. China is among the major actors for global issues such as mitigating climate warming, controlling weapons of mass destruction, combating economic inequality and underdevelopment, and improving health for all. In the current setting of the new world order, all countries and especially world powers develop a general blueprint for the future, as cultural and material conditions of the present world are very different from the past. Under such conditions, China faces a review of its bilateral and regional strategies, as well as its position and actions in world institutions that have the mission of forming policy responses to issues of a global scale. This book, therefore, provides insight into China's view of world problems and the future world order. It is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of China's role in today's world and the global power shift.