Security Praxis

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 destabilized an already fragile country, urging thousands of people to flee. At the same time, Belarus has forced around 20,000 migrants to move to neighboring EU countries. Finally, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has so far compelled more than 6.8 million people to flee, in addition to more than 4 million intern ⋙

migrants, European Union, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Syria, Iraq

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

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 ⋙

Interviews

Can empathy influence leadership, security, and high-stake situations? A conversation with Claire Yorke

Can empathy influence leadership, security, and high-stake situations? The War in Afghanistan (2001), the Covid-19 pandemic (2019), and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (2022) are all events that have ⋙

Russia

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 ⋙

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 ⋙