Afghanistan Taliban rule in Kabul: authoritarianism on the rise, democracies on the defensive A world of mediation, alliances and ideological amalgamation, the resurgent Islamic emirate aims to gain legitimacy in the international system The Taliban are more careful today than twenty years ago ⋙
Field Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger In november 2018 Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari conducted field research in Niger, spending three weeks between the capital Niamey and Agadez, ‘la belle du desert’. Without any ambition to ⋙
Debate Regeni, the media chorus sides with the counter-revolution Instead of looking into the mechanisms that shield the executioners from prosecution, Italian media and commentators spin conspiracies. Used to noir fiction, the public is thirsty for plot twists and ⋙
Debate The social roots of 'radicalisation' and 'violent extremism' in Africa Is 'radicalisation' the cause or the effect of violent conflict in Africa? English translation of the presentation given at the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group of the ⋙
Culture Under the Sycamores Luca Rastello, journalist and writer. 9 July 1961 - 6 July 2015. The curtain opened and he passed away. Luca Rastello’s corageous work must be known across all those ⋙
EU anti-terrorism policy We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union Nothing about the recent Paris or Copenhagen terrorist attacks was totally unexpected. Indeed, they were the sort of thing that security apparatuses in Europe had been preparing to have to ⋙
From Hand to Hand How seven Norwegian small warships ended up in the hands of a former Niger Delta militant. Good intentions, outsourcing and deceptions as Nigeria prepares for elections. Security Praxis hosts a ⋙
neofascist mafia Rome Rome, a Criminal World-in-Between An unprecedented probe shows that the città eterna has been shadow-governed for years by a clique of neofascists and mafiosi, and that it may not be willing to understand why. ⋙
geopolitics The Return of Geopolitics Zombies Conflict in Ukraine and an ideology prêt-a-porter. Gen. Augusto Pinochet gave classes of geography and geopolitics at the War Academy of Chile. As the conflict in Ukraine edges towards civil ⋙
Reviews Books and Lives of the Exiled Aleksandar Hemon's lives reflect the insecurity of the reader and stay clear of reassuring bulldozers. Asked to deliver a speech on literature and exile, Roberto Bolaño said that ⋙
