Security Praxis

Displacement in the Time of Corona: Life fragments of IDPs in Mali and Niger, among intercommunal violence and armed groups proliferation

In the West, much is being written about the spread of the coronavirus. During the last months, we visited refugees and IDPs camps in Mali and Niger to witness the conditions they live in, and broaden the reflection on how these marginal places, forgotten in their invisibility, exist in States that are increasingly controlling their populations, and what could be the

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Field, Mali, Niger, Bamako, refugees, IDP, coronavirus, jihadists

Research Highlights

Executive Training for Early Career Researchers

Executive Training Seminars: Working and Researching in Challenging Environments, 30 November-2 December 2020, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa in…

Transnational Governance Research Factory

A research incubator at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies promoting the study of transnational governance dynamics in…

Call For Papers: New Voices And New Ideas On Women, Peace And Security Agenda

Call for articles “New Voices and New Ideas on Women Peace and Security Agenda": http://www.peaceagency.org/…

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Culture

A single destiny binds the world: Immunity, Community, and Finitude

The virus has become the widespread metaphor for all of our nightmares – Roberto Esposito, Terms of the Political, 2008 While not unexpected, the coronavirus pandemic has taken the whole world

Interviews

Bringing sociology into the study of security: a conversation with Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín (II)

Second part of the interview with more questions on practices of counter-terrorism in Spain and some final comments on the coronavirus epidemic [back to part one]. AM: Welcome back, Dr

Interviews

Bringing sociology into the study of security: a conversation with Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín (I)

Although in the last decades improvements have been done, International Relations still tends to be a closed discipline. While constructivist and critical approaches in the field have raised and highlighted

Culture

Together alone: Marx in times of coronavirus

“Non ci possiamo baciare! Senza baci!” We find ourselves confined inside our homes due to the coronavirus. As individuals, we shoulder the responsibility. We feel lonely and isolated. And nevertheless,

Culture

Epidemiology of coronavirus as a psychosocial disease

The coronavirus seems unstoppable. Science (with capital S) has dealt with the coronavirus mainly from a clinical and infectious point of view. In line with the standards of biomedical knowledge,

Debate

North Korean Security Amidst Stability and Threats

by Giorgio Falchi, Antonella Lena, Michela Masciocchi, Roberto Talenti Much has been said on the current leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un: a crazy rocket man or a genius, a

Debate

The Colombian Peace Process: an empty bag of unfulfilled promises?

The faltering implementation of the peace agreement provides favorable circumstances for the surge of organized crime, while the conditions of those who have been most affected during the years of

Debate

What does the arrest of Patrick George Zaky tell us about the state of academic freedom?

Nearly four years after the brutal murder of Giulio Regeni, a doctoral student conducting fieldwork in Cairo, the Egyptian authorities continue to repress intellectual life for both students, academics and

Debate

Political Violence, Repression and Arbitrary Detention in Egypt: the case of Patrick George Zaky

History repeats itself if you do not know how to draw lessons from it. Giulio Regeni was an Italian PhD student at the University of Cambridge who was kidnapped on

Debate

Are Some Sahelian Jihadist Groups ‘Antifragile’?

Over recent years, jihadists have had a string of tactical wins against West African armies. Evidence from their attacks on Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) suggests that the ‘antifragile’ character of

Field

Missing Pieces in a Weapons Seizure in Northern Shan State

On the 22nd November 2019 press releases started circulating on Myanmar social media and news outlets concerning what was defined as one of the largest weapons seizures carried out by

Field

From the borderlands to the centre: land travelling in Myanmar

In the early 2000s, with an article entitled “Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance”, Willem van Schendel explored how areas are imagined and how knowledge constructs them into “heartlands” and