Security Praxis

Kremlin’s spy mania and resistance in Russian academia

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many anti-war protests have taken place in Russia. As a result, many students and scholars have faced police violence and persecution. Maria Rakhmaninova is one of the youngest doctors of philosophy in Russia – she defended her dissertation on political philosophy at the age of 33. She lost her job, her career and her lifework and now she has to work as a cleaning lady because she refuses to “serve the regime” with her mind and heart. Dr Rakhmaninova is not hiding her identity, face or name while she ⋙

Russia, Ukraine, academic freedom, scholars at risk, repression

Research Highlights

SGOC General Conference on Organised Crime (4–6 July, Pisa&online)

The Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC) of ⋙

Panel “Jihad in Africa" @ SGRI 2022 Conference (16-17 June, Perugia)

The ERIS team will organise a panel in the context of the 2022 SGRI Conference, organized by the ⋙

ERIS seminar: “The Sahel in turmoil: Conflict drivers and responses” (16 May, Pisa)

The Emerging Research on International Security (ERIS) team at the Sant’Anna School is very happy to announce ⋙

warbling security

European Union

Frontex’s evolution from the undisputable to the untenable EU border agency

Fabrice Leggeri, the Executive Director of the European Union border agency "Frontex", resigned on 29th April 2022 following the release of the initial findings of an anti-fraud investigation. Last February ⋙

migrants

Landscapes of (in)security in Calais

The people on the move in Calais are now 2.000, according to Human Rights Watch’s estimates, but they used to be at least 10.000. Their numbers have ⋙

Russia

The Russian aggression to Ukraine: from imperial utopia to decaying dystopia

What’s the imperial myth? It’s the mythological narration of a past that becomes the foundation of national identity, indicates, and legitimises the sphere of influence where the empire ⋙

geopolitics

Back to the beginning? Discussing the return of Geopolitics in IR

by Antonina Kseinova, Federica Pizzo, Felix Jahn. The Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA) and the Italian Standing Group of International Relations (SGRI) welcomed the new year with the ⋙

Interviews

Interviews with Scholars at Risk in Italy: Gökhan Demir

What are the challenges faced by at-risk scholars abroad? Starting from this question, this interview aims to give an idea to the administrative sections of universities, who are unfamiliar with ⋙

Turkey

Authoritarianism, Occupation and Resistance: Boğaziçi University

On 19 January 2022, Boğaziçi University’s elected deans of three faculties (Özlem Berk Albachten, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; R. Metin Ercan, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences; and ⋙

Africa

A major shift? Biden, Africa and (the stagnation of) the US security policy

The inauguration of the Biden presidency in January 2021 was filled with high hopes with respect to a renewal of the US security policy in Africa. Observers and analysts envisaged ⋙