https://hdl.handle.net/10807/101 2026-09-10T16:21:47Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/345617 Titolo: Tigray, un ritorno alla guerra? Cronaca di una crisi che si riapre Autori: Beatrice Nicolini Abstract: Da alcune settimane la regione del Tigray, nell’Etiopia settentrionale, è nuovamente oggetto dell’attenzione internazionale. La regione era stata teatro, tra il 2020 e il 2022, di uno dei conflitti più sanguinosi degli ultimi decenni nel continente africano. A tre anni dalla firma dell’accordo di pace di Pretoria si osservano oggi una ripresa dei combattimenti, un progressivo indebolimento dell’intesa raggiunta e il riacutizzarsi del rischio di carestia. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/345196 Titolo: 2026, Qeshm Island: Omani Legacy, Afro-Iranian Presence, and the Geostrategy of the Strait of Hormuz Autori: Beatrice Nicolini Abstract: Qeshm is the largest island in the Persian Gulf and occupies a position of singular historiographical ambiguity. Administered today as part of Iran's Hormozgan province, the island belonged for close to a century to the Omani sphere of authority projected across the Persian coast by the Al Bu Said dynasty. This layered political history has left Qeshm with an identity that resists a single national narrative. The island's past as an Omani dependency, its long function as a node of the Indian Ocean slave trade that produced a distinct Afro-descendant population, and its present role as the fulcrum of Iranian military strategy in the Strait of Hormuz together make Qeshm a case study in the entanglement of Gulf history and contemporary geopolitics. Despite this significance, the island remains one of the least studied territories of the Western Indian Ocean world, a gap this article seeks to outline alongside the historical and strategic dimensions that make Qeshm worthy of far greater scholarly attention. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/344918 Titolo: Jumping without parachutes. Revolving doors and political incentives Autori: Matteo Gamalerio; Federico Trombetta 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/344917 Titolo: Changing demography by changing democracy: Welfare and fertility under proxy voting for children Autori: Federico Boffa; Tommaso Reggiani; Matteo Rizzolli; Federico Trombetta 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z