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 ⋙
Debate Contrasting agendas: EU’s migration governance vs. West African governments’ priorities In the aftermath of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, the EU should take into consideration what the real interests of their partners in West Africa and the Sahel are and accept ⋙
Debate Robot fighting: Libya and the wars of the future Intervening at the ISPI Med forum in Rome on December 7, 2019, the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Libya, Ghassane Salame, said that the current conflict in Libya ⋙
conflict Causalities and casualties: the perpetuation of violence in conflict-management operations That peace operations and crisis response mechanisms can fail to restore security is not news. What is less known, is that in many cases they can also have harmful outcomes ⋙
Field Conducting immersive fieldwork on Tunisian Islamic activism: Methodological and ethical challenges In recent years an increasing number of academic works have focused on the progressive securitization of research conducted in authoritarian contexts (Peter and Strazzari, 2017; Glasius et al., 2017), including ⋙
Field Fieldwork research challenged: constraints, needs and opportunities Scholars are increasingly aware that fieldwork research in conflict-prone, politically unstable or authoritarian areas can pose specific risks. To respond, at least in part, to such risks, academic institutions have ⋙
Debate A slap in the face of justice: the ICC and Afghanistan On 12 April 2019, the Pre-Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court rejected the request to open an official investigation on war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan ⋙
Debate Under the Rule of LAWS: Artificial Intelligence in Warfare Considered as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) pose many challenges and raise many questions within state institutions and the civil ⋙
Debate Reframing the fight against terrorism: can counter-narratives write a new story? With the loss of the last stronghold in Baghouz, ISIS has formally been defeated. However, according to the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, its threat could increase because of combatants returning ⋙
Debate Banal power for totalitarian systems Hannah Arendt’s famous thesis is as often quoted as misunderstood. While she was proven wrong in assessing Eichmann’s historical role and personality, even where she erred, she did ⋙
