Alessandro Marrone

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Alessandro Marrone

Alessandro Marrone is a researcher in the Security & Defense Area at the International Affairs Institute (IAI). He is also a freelance journalist and holds a MSs in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The next US president and Europe’s defense

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and the World - 23/2/2012
Recently, America’s disengagement from Europe has been a focus of debate in more and more quarters. Indeed, a number of indicators point out a strategic re-orientation of American defense and foreign policy away from the European theater – and even from NATO – and this trend can only partly be influenced by the next US president...

Romney’s test in South Carolina

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and Us - 16/1/2012
South Carolina goes to the polls Saturday January 21, in what may be a turning point in the Republican primary process. Some local factors are going to affect the vote, but general trends and personalities will play a more significant role, particularly with regards to Mitt Romney, the current frontrunner...

After Iowa: Romney facing the anti-Romney majority

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and Us - 5/1/2012
Mitt Romney won – by a thread – the first Republican primary. This is very good news for him, of course, also because it was far from an obvious result. The Mormon candidate from Massachusetts won among a largely Evangelical electorate: 57% of primary voters in Iowa this year declared themselves to be Evangelicals...

Rick Perry, the Texas candidate for the Republican nomination

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and Us - 20/10/2011
A few months after Rick Perry entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the main points in his political agenda became more clear, as well as his strengths and weakness as a candidate...

Il decennale in un’America divisa: verso le elezioni 2012

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and the World - 12/9/2011
Il decennale dell’11 settembre ha rappresentato ovviamente un momento politico importante per gli Stati Uniti, che avrebbe dovuto in teoria produrre una tensione unitaria. Non è stato così: la politica americana vi è arrivata con posizioni contrastanti sui temi della sicurezza nazionale e con gran parte dell’attenzione dedicata a temi economici controversi...

The US debt: living within your means?

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and Us - 25/7/2011
The debate in Washington on the federal debt has attracted worldwide attention, particularly since the phantom of federal government default has appeared in politicians’ declarations, newsrooms and rating agencies for the first time in American history...

Afghanistan: drawing down in time for the US elections

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and the World - 24/6/2011
"America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home," President Barack Obama told his American audience by announcing the size of the upcoming withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. It is a statement that reveals how economic and political motivations overwhelmed military considerations in shaping this important decision on the Afghan war...

NATO, the American General and “transition” in Afghanistan

Alessandro Marrone - U.S. and the World - 11/2/2011
In recent days the ISAF Commander, General David Petraeus, has explained his view on how the counter-insurgency campaign is proceeding in Afghanistan, and what the prospects are for the NATO-led mission in the near future...

The new NATO Strategic Concept: just one step in the right direction

Alessandro Marrone - Global Issues - 26/11/2010
The November 2010 Lisbon Summit produced a number of important official documents. Among them are NATO declarations on Afghanistan and on cooperation with Russia, which have received most of the media coverage, and the new Strategic Concept (SC), which is most likely to have the greatest impact on NATO in the long term...

The British Strategic Review: Yes Sir, we still do defense

Alessandro Marrone - Old Continent - 9/11/2010
It’s a country with global ambitions and dramatic deficit, which has to reshape its armed forces and procurement in order to face emerging threats and which has to rely more on old and new partners. This was the message given by the Strategic Defence and Security Review recently released by the British government...