Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Descrizione del progetto

The ChinaMed Project is promoted by the TOChina Hub, a partnership of the TOChina Centre of the University of Turin, the Torino World Affairs Institute and ESCP Business School. This project aims at offering a fresh analytical response to the shifting political, geo-economic and security landscape in the wider Mediterranean region. In particular, the primary research aim is to analyse the deepening interconnections between China and countries in this region, reflecting on their potential impact on regional and global dynamics.

The wider Mediterranean region is one of the great economic, socio-cultural, and geopolitical pivots in human history. It is both a space of unity and coherence characterised by long-term continuity, as well as a dynamic epicentre of centrifugal forces that connect Europe, Africa, and Asia. The current "arc of tension" projecting from the wider Mediterranean region is the byproduct of two mutually reinforcing phenomena: the simmering civil war within Islam, and the consequences of the financial crisis which has been engulfing the southern members of the Eurozone since 2010. As political instability, extremism, and economic dislocation across this region reverberate globally, they intersect one of the most consequential macro-trends of this century: the transition of China, with its 1.4 billion people, from the periphery to the centre of the international system. Next to the United States, China is today the most influential global actor and is quickly becoming an eminent player in the Mediterranean region: its footprint is changing the balance of power on the ground in a nuanced yet incremental fashion. To capture the broadening range of Chinese interests across the Mediterranean space, the geographical scope of the ChinaMed project includes those countries that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs groups under the label "West Asia and North Africa", some of those that are grouped under the label “Europe", and a select few others - namely Djibouti, Ethiopia and Mali - whose relevance for Chinese economic and security interests in the region is particularly pronounced. Accordingly, the wider Mediterranean region as observed by ChinaMed researchers is composed by the following countries:

Southern Europe - Albania, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, France, Italy, Northern Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, and Spain

Middle East - Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza/Palestine, and Yemen

North Africa - Algeria, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Tunisia

ChinaMed reflects upon and actively engages with the growing relations between China and the wider Mediterranean region through a range of academic and policy-related initiatives. These include the ChinaMed Business Program, scientific publications, academic events, and the collection and analysis of an extensive set of data from authoritative sources in Italian, Chinese, French, Turkish, Persian, Spanish, Greek, and Arabic which may be consulted in the ChinaMed Data section of this website as well as in the page of the ChinaMed Observer.

Risultati e pubblicazioni

Giovanni Andornino (2015)
Sino-Italian Relations in a Turbulent Mediterranean: Trends and Opportunities.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1507948

andornino giovanni (2020)
Tra status e agency: Cina e Italia a 50 anni dalla normalizzazione delle relazioni.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1762206

andornino (2020)
La Cina: sviluppi interni, proiezione esterna.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1762720.1

Giovanni Andornino (2018)
Oltre la prudenza: il ritorno della Cina al centro delle dinamiche globali.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1755353

Giovanni Andornino (2017)
How Do We Assess China’s Foreign and Security Policy?
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1647263

Giovanni Andornino (2017)
The Belt and Road Initiative in China’s Emerging Grand Strategy of Connective Leadership.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1647264

Giovanni Andornino, Giorgio Prodi (2017)
Editors’ Words: Introduction to the Special Issue.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1647265

Giovanni, Andornino (2016)
Prospettive del dialogo euro-asiatico.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1636780

Andornino, Giovanni (2016)
I rapporti con la Cina.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1636772

Andornino Giovanni (2016)
La dimensione people-to-people nella Belt & Road Initiative: come un pubblico strategico cinese percepisce l’Italia.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1663362

Andornino Giovanni (2015)
An Assessment of EU–China Relations in Global Governance Forums.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1664730

Andornino, Giovanni (2015)
Cina 2020: implicazioni globali del nuovo ciclo di riforme e prospettive per il partenariato strategico con l'Italia.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1636779

Giovanni Andornino (2015)
Prefazione.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/154325

Maurizio Marinelli, Giovanni Andornino (2014)
Italy’s Encounters with Modern China. Imperial Dreams, Strategic Ambitions.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/141537

Maurizio Marinelli, Giovanni Andornino (2014)
Introduction.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/141536

Giovanni Andornino (2014)
Strategic ambitions in times of transition: key patterns in contemporary Italy-China relations.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/141538

Caffarena, Anna, Gabusi, Giuseppe (2019)
China's Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia: Space-Shaping as Ordering.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1707422

Anna Caffarena, Giuseppe Gabusi (2019)
Europa e Cina nell’ordine in trasformazione: il ruolo del multilateralismo.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1756873

Caffarena, Anna, Gabusi, Giuseppe (2017)
Making sense of a changing world: foreign policy ideas and Italy's national role conceptions after 9/11.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1644728