What will Putin’s effect be on Eastern Europe?
Topics and insights from the latest issue of the quarterly Start Magazine. The article by Pierluigi Mennitti
If the Russian invasion of Ukraine has upset the world balance born with the end of the Second World War, there is a European region, the central and eastern one, on which the impact of the conflict is destined to have a dramatic impact. It is a region close to us, which in part shares our own destinies with its membership of the European Union, and with which Italy – understood as a country system made up of political institutions, businesses, cultural systems, populations – has always, and since 1989 more and more, very close ties. And their own interests to protect.
The latest issue of the quarterly Start Magazine focuses its analysis precisely on this area that we have defined as Eastern Europe until the fall of the Berlin Wall, when it re-emerged from the refrigerator in which it had been sealed during the Cold War. The 1989 thaw relocated the states that are part of it in that geographical context that historically and culturally belonged to them: central Europe, that middle Europe squeezed between Central Europe – an entity more literary than political – and the Baltic area, and which extends in longitude from Berlin to Moscow, in latitude from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Here in the last thirty years a new Europe has taken shape, despite many (and perhaps inevitable) contradictions, going through a rapid and not obvious transition from totalitarian systems to often fragile democracies, from planned economies to free markets.
The impact that the invasion unleashed by Moscow is having on this region is therefore at the center of the new issue of the quarterly Start Magazine (November 2022/February 2023) entitled "Rollercoaster", which offers articles and interviews entrusted to experts, journalists, historians and economists who have always been involved in the analysis of Central-Eastern Europe. They have the task of illustrating what has changed in the abundant thirty years since 1989 and what is destined to change due to the war in the various states that make up the region in terms of economics, innovation, infrastructural and digital networks and, theme more topical than ever, of supplies and energy security.
The issue is then enriched by the usual articles and essays on various topics, from energy to artificial intelligence, from the experience of smart cities (with Venice at the center of our focus) to innovation, to the continuation of the debate on globalization, testifying that the themes developed on the pages of Start Magazine always find new opportunities for updating.
The following have participated in this issue with articles or interviews: Uski Audino, Lorenzo Berardi, Stefano Caliciuri, Giusy Caretto, Giorgio Cella, Massimo Chriatti, Francesco De Felice, Alessandro De Nicola, Filippo De Nicola, Marco Dell'Aguzzo, Mauro Giansante, Stefano Grazioli , Nicola Intini, Corrado La Forgia, Paola Liberace, Alessandro Napoli, Gianguido Piani, Maria Claudia Pignata, Maurizio Stefanini, Kai Struve, Carlo Terzano, Ubaldo Villani Lubelli.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/quale-sara-leffetto-putin-europa-est/ on Sun, 27 Nov 2022 07:05:18 +0000.