SIOI, the Italian society for international organization, is a non-profit international organisation that operates under the supervision of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, with CESI chaired by Professor Andrea Margelletti and with the cooperation of the Italy-USA Foundation, are pleased to announce a Master’s Degree Course starting in March 2010 and on ‘Crisis Areas, Security and Intelligence’. Topics include the Balkans, the Caucasus and the ‘-stan countries’, as well as the political evolution of Islamic movements in the Middle East and their approach to local states, the situations which make up the fragmented Afghan-Pakistani landscape and the complex problems of Asia and of US administration policies. The aim of the Master’s degree course is to offer the main actors in international politics, such as diplomats, civil service high officials, foreign office and international organization officials and researchers a detailed knowledge of the government and non-governmental actors, the current protagonists in one or several geopolitical scenarios. In the photo, the Master Degree was presented to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini from the secretary general of Italy-USA Foundation, Corrado Maria Daclon.

The President of the Chamber of Deputies Hon. Gianfranco Fini sent a message to the President of the Italy-USA Foundation thanking for “the contribute of the Italy-USA Foundation to improve the relationship and friendship between Italy and the United States of America, to build a safe, democratic and free world”.

The anniversary of President Barack Obama’s election, promoted by the Italy-USA Foundation under the auspices of the President of the Chamber of Deputies Hon. Gianfranco Fini, was illustrated on SkyTg24.

More than 500 Italians and Americans participated at Chamber of Deputies, on November 4, 2009, in the celebration of President Obama’s first year, with the screening of the documentary “Obama, un sogno americano” produced by the Italy-USA Foundation, Sky Tg24 and Corriere della Sera.