Security Praxis

Solidarity Across Struggles: Narratives on the South African Identity and Pro-Palestinian Activism

In December of 2023, the Republic of South Africa filed an extensive application to the International Court of Justice, detailing the acts of the genocidal violence brought on by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories of Gaza and urging the international community to take immediate action against this violence (International Court of Justice, 2023). Regarding the matter of why South Africa was the country to bring this case to court, Minister of Interna ⋙

Palestine, South Africa, identity, transnational activism

Research Highlights

Democracy on the Brink: Democratic crises, Authoritarian threats and Collective resistance

Join us on Monday, 17 November, at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) for Democracy on the Brink, ⋙

SHUT-MED Prin project final conference, 5-6/06, SSSA Pisa

Conference “The Changing Governance of Migration in the Mediterranean and Beyond”, in the framework of the PRIN project ⋙

Workshop Digital Reconfigurations, University of Padova 3-4/06

Digital Reconfigurations. Exploring the interplay between data, infrastructures and social processes, University of Padova, June 3-4, 2025 ⋙

Checkpoints in Egypt: Core Mechanisms of a Police State and Their Social Implications

This brief article analyzes Egyptian checkpoints as central mechanisms of the police state, a legacy of the Mubarak era (1981–2011) and core feature of today’s political economy of ⋙

RE-ENGAGE

Drifting Further Away? Authoritarian Consolidation and Civic Resistance in Georgia

The EU’s credibility in promoting democratic norms in the Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood has been severely undermined by its notorious tolerance of autocratic leaders such as Vučić and ⋙

NIJAR

Negotiating with Jihadist Groups: NIJAR’s Preliminary Findings Presented at EUI Workshop

On Friday, May 16, 2025, the research team of the NIJAR project was invited to present its preliminary findings at a workshop organized by the Muslim World Working Group of ⋙

yazidi

Transitional justice failure? The international responses to Yazidi genocide

On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi community in Iraq’s Nineveh Province, Sinjar region, resulting in mass killings and enslavement of at least 12,000 ⋙

Defense pact

The Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pact

Either it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. ⋙

Kako Nubukpo

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part II

This is the second part of the interview with Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor of Economics at the University of Lomé (Togo), former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources, ⋙

panafricanism

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part I

During this interview, Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor in Economic at the University of Lomé (Togo), Former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, former Minister of Long-term ⋙

Anthropocene

The Anthropocene impact on the de-peripheralization of the Arctic

The Arctic is among the world's most climate-fragile regions, being very responsive to temperature increases. In the Anthropocene epoch, the Arctic’s “surface air temperatures have warmed at ⋙

Syria

Captagon: beyond Syrian regime downfall

Introduction The recent fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime , led by the rebel-jihadist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (former Jabhat al Nusra) and others, seems to have reshaped Syria’ ⋙