Security Praxis

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 the likes, and by internal dissensions that hinder the framing of a coherent crisis response. In Georgia, this failure is particularly stark, as the EU appears unable to effectively address Georgian Dream’s full drift toward consolidated authoritarianism. As opposition figure Marika Mikiashvili asks: “I ⋙

RE-ENGAGE, Georgia, Vučić, USAID

Research Highlights

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 ⋙

Seminar Wider Mediterranean. Crisis or opportunity? 5/05 Bologna

Wider Mediterranean. Sea of Crisis or Sea of Opportunity? Aula 21 Piazza Scaravilli 2, University of Bologna, 40126 ⋙

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’ ⋙