Security Praxis

Positioning “Africa”: extraverted agency amidst global (dis)order

A spectre is haunting Africa: the spectre of African agency. Long denied, African agency is surfacing in new ways in the current context of the new global (dis)order and increasingly tense global geopolitics, the benchmark event of which lies in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: African countries are beginning to assert themselves, by not taking sides. UN General Assembly votes This stance was initially manifested in the most obvious way during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly vote on the ⋙

African Union, United Nations, Russia, Ukraine

Research Highlights

Freedom, conflicts, change Legacies of Rosa Luxemburg

A few days ago, on the 15th of January 2023 was the 104th anniversary of the murder of ⋙

Call for expression of interest - Researcher in IR

The Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in view of the possible opening of one positions of Recognized ⋙

Conference: SWANA from below: living, enduring, and remembering its revolutions

November 30, December 1,2 Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences The Department of Political ⋙

warbling security

Interviews

Antisemitism, Palestine and academic freedom. Interview with the European Legal Support Center

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) adopted a working definition of antisemitism of 2016 to address the rise in hate and discrimination against Jews. It has been formally adopted ⋙

migrants

Migration Data Governance: A Critical Discussion on the Digital “Black Box” of Migration

Digitalization of governance, transparency, accountability, as well as legal and socio-political implications of data-driven migration governance are among the topics addressed during the workshop “Migration data governance” hosted by the ⋙

Interviews

Between borders, technologies, and databases: (in)visibilising emerging challenges in migration. A conversation with Niovi Vavoula

Both at the external EU borders, such as Greece and Italy, and the internal ones amongst EU Member States, we have witnessed a dispersion of the border, through its digitalization. ⋙

democracy

In Francophone West Africa, democracy continues to backslide

by Ornella Moderan,* Independent Researcher, Bamako, Mali West Africa’s democracy crisis runs deeper than military coups. On this year’s International Day of Democracy, 15 September, there isn’t ⋙

Georgia

Security expertise in Georgia: a social network analysis

In Tbilisi, the think-tank experts, NGO directors, and other civil society actors who spend their working days debating Georgia’s foreign policy and drafting grant proposals on confidence-building or security ⋙

Turkey

Diplomacy, legacies and weapons: How is Turkish foreign policy towards Africa changing

by Akram Kharief* Turkey’s engagement in Africa has experienced a significant change in the last decade, most notably in North Africa. Turkey features a more assertive presence across the ⋙

Israel

Deserted truths: a posthuman approach to the study of insecurity in the Naqab/Negev

Protests erupted in southern Israel’s Negev region in mid-January 2022. Bedouin residents revolted against the Jewish tree-planting tradition of Tu-Bishvat. The event was organised by the Jewish National Fund ⋙

migrants

Ukraine, Afghanistan and Belarus: What EU emergency response to ongoing migration plights?

In less than a year, three new scenarios of crisis emerged within the EU and at its external borders. The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 further ⋙

terrorism

Counter-terrorism and the fight against Al-Shabaab in East Africa: Time for a more targeted approach

On 3 May 2022, militants of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab entered the African Union (AU) military base in El-Baraf, Somalia, engaging in a fight against Burundian forces that caused dozens ⋙

Sahel

A Jihadists’ schism in central Sahel: conflict epilogue or prelude to a new escalation?

The war on terror in the central Sahel has not yet reached a strategic breakthrough, as shown by the uninterrupted escalation of violence striking the region since 2015. A closer ⋙