Abstract
After a thousand years, the Mediterranean has returned to the center of geopolitics. What is happening in Mare Nostrum, as the Romans called it, is changing world geopolitics and will change the fate of the countries on the southern shore of Europe and of Europe itself, which does not seem to be fully aware of it yet.
It all began in the three “Byzantine capitals” of the modern era, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, and Rome. In fact, Israel, Turkey and Italy have a common trait that external observers often do not notice, obscured by the apparent aspects of modernity and the glamour of their nightlife, history, elegance of women and culinary art. In reality, behind their appearances, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, and Rome, like Byzantium in the passage between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, are the capitals of three modern and refined religious worlds, the Jewish, Muslim and Catholic worlds, where everything that appears outside never corresponds to what it really is.
The history of the Mediterranean and Europe resurfaced in these three worlds in 2009, when no one expected it, just as it happened when Byzantium, the second Rome, ended up in the hands of the Turks and became today’s Istanbul. The epicenter this time lies under the sea, at a depth of more than 2,000 meters. The architects of this dangerous renaissance of the Mediterranean are not prime ministers or generals, but two commercial societies rarely seen in the headlines: the Israeli-American Noble Energy and the Italian Eni.
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