21/05/2026
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📍 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙮 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙧 𝙀𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙆𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙣 – At a time when global politics is increasingly framed through rivalry and competing power blocs, understanding international relations has never been more important.
Rather than witnessing the collapse of the rules-based international order, we are seeing a gradual fragmentation of global governance — where alliances, institutions, and contested norms continue to shape world politics in complex ways.
📍 𝙇𝙪𝙞𝙯𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙘𝙯 (Geographer and Full Professor of Economic-Political Geography, Ca' Foscari University of Venice) 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙞 (Economist, ITSTIME Fellow - Università Cattolica) - In an increasingly fragmented world, we rely on maps, narratives, and simplified frameworks to make sense of global complexity. But reducing international politics to slogans, acronyms, or rigid geopolitical schemes often conceals more than it reveals. Today, understanding global change means learning to navigate uncertainty — without mistaking our models of the world for the world itself.
📍 𝙋𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙇𝙚𝙤 𝘾𝙚𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞 , Director of the Master in Middle Eastern Studies ( ) at ASERI and Associate Professor of Asian History and Institutions - Sectarianization in the Middle East has not disappeared, it has changed form. Once tied to open conflict and violent mobilization, it is now increasingly embedded in governance, security practices, and the management of populations.
📍 𝗔𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀, stories of our Alumni who have turned their ASERI experience into global impact: 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙉𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙖 𝘿𝙪𝙡𝙘𝙚𝙩 , 𝙊𝙡𝙚𝙠𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝘿𝙚𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙖𝙣𝙙 , 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙖 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨
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