Paolo Cappelli

14/08/2026

L'Italia comanda la missione che protegge il corridoio, e paga comunque il conto. Il collo di bottiglia che decide non sta in acqua.

https://paolocappelli1.substack.com/p/nessuno-ha-chiuso-lo-stretto-e-qualcuno

L'Italia comanda la missione che protegge il corridoio, e paga comunque il conto. Il collo di bottiglia che decide non sta in acqua.

04/08/2026

The Arctic Council hasn’t held a normal meeting in over three years. That’s exactly why it’s worth watching.

When the one table where all eight Arctic states sat together went quiet after 2022, Arctic coordination didn’t stop. It moved: to NATO, to bilateral deals, to rooms Russia isn’t in. A frozen institution doesn’t simply halt. Its power migrates, and rarely to somewhere more open.

Part 1 of The Geography of Forgotten Institutions. Full essay on Substack, https://open.substack.com/pub/paolocappelli1/p/why-the-arctic-council-still-matters?r=8cvwde