"Looking West but Turning East. The Eurasian Evolution of Russia's Foreign Policy (1991-2020)"

While after the Ukraine crisis everything points to the Kremlin’s attitude of looking more to the East than to the West, it is important to reconstruct the main stages of the Russian geo-political repositioning towards a « Great Eurasia ». To do this, a necessary step is to identify the different historical phases of Moscow’s international positioning between West and East after the collapse of the USSR, keeping the Kremlin’s internal political and institutional evolution in the backgro...

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How exogenous is war? The links between economic, military, trade and industrial policies in the upsurge of Russia-Ukraine conflict

The current Russian-Ukrainian war has drawn a wide attention well beyond the territorial extension of the conflict. It has raised immediate and growing concern for its direct consequences in terms of human losses and material disruptions. However, the indirect implications for the world economy and politics can be even harsher, as the war increases uncertainty, undermines supply chains, deepens inequalities and induces a profound and costly structural change. Research has started focusing...

Functional division of labour and value capture in global value chains: a new empirical assessment based on FDI data

This work provides a new empirical assessment of global economic hierarchies and the associated unequal distribution of value between core and peripheral economies. This is accomplished by looking at the functional division of labour induced by the international fragmentation of production and the related value capture dynamics in global value chains (GVCs). To this aim, we introduce and compute an indicator of ‘functional specialization’ of economies based on their ability to attract Foreign...