Drone warfare in Niger
Niger

Drone warfare in Niger

By Dominic James Stanley, Ginevra Fontana, and Angelantonio Duraccio The death of four American and five Nigerien soldiers in north-western Niger, along with France seeking authorisation to arm its remotely ⋙

  • Guest author(s)
  • Ginevra Fontana
Guest author(s), Ginevra Fontana 27 Nov 2017 • 4 min read
Participation without power and property in new governance models
neoliberalism

Participation without power and property in new governance models

Everybody wants more participation, not less. But the current social project for Europe ultimately offers a kind of feeble, diluted participation that we will affectionately call objet petit p: a ⋙

  • Mario Ragazzi
Mario Ragazzi 12 Oct 2017 • 7 min read
Catalonia: on popular will, legitimacy and institutional change
Catalonia

Catalonia: on popular will, legitimacy and institutional change

We thank Judith Butler for allowing to post her comment, that is part of an ongoing exchange among social and political theorists sparked by Peter Wagner's letter from ⋙

  • Judith Butler
Judith Butler 5 Oct 2017 • 10 min read
Referendum and repression in Catalonia
Catalonia

Referendum and repression in Catalonia

We publish as fragments of a public debate an exchange among political theorists and social scientists that was triggered by a letter that Peter Wagner addressed to friends and colleagues ⋙

  • Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner 3 Oct 2017 • 6 min read
Letter from Catalunya
Catalonia

Letter from Catalunya

From Barcelona Peter Wagner writes to friends and colleagues about the Catalan referendum on independence. Direct democracy often forces to crude choices on fundamental questions that are hard to reconcile ⋙

  • Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner 30 Sep 2017 • 11 min read
Designating ‘vulnerability’: the asylum claims of women and sexual minorities
asylum seeker

Designating ‘vulnerability’: the asylum claims of women and sexual minorities

The Refugee Convention was not designed with the persecution of women and sexual minorities in mind. But times change and today most would agree that women at risk of Female ⋙

  • Moira Dustin
Moira Dustin 3 Jun 2017 • 5 min read
Anti-corruption protests in Russia
Russia

Anti-corruption protests in Russia

The anti-corruption rallies that were organized all over Russia last 26 March open a new, uncertain phase in Russian politics. In 2011-2012, protests were pro-democracy, pro-Western and mobilizing mainly the ⋙

  • Carolina de Stefano
Carolina de Stefano 14 May 2017 • 6 min read
Europe as Terraferma: against the criminalisation of solidarity
migrants

Europe as Terraferma: against the criminalisation of solidarity

In recent years the EU institutions and most member states have criminalised not only the illegal entry into the EU territory, but also citizens' human solidarity with irregular migrants ⋙

  • Brunilda Pali
    Brunilda Pali
Brunilda Pali 5 May 2017 • 10 min read
Critical Terrorism Studies: a conversation with Richard Jackson
Interviews

Critical Terrorism Studies: a conversation with Richard Jackson

"Given that the war on terror has killed and injured infinitely more people than non-state terrorism has, and that counterterrorism has harmed communities and individuals in a large number ⋙

  • Alice Martini
Alice Martini 27 Apr 2017 • 11 min read
Just another brick in the (Great American) Wall
USA

Just another brick in the (Great American) Wall

The construction of a Great American Wall on the border with Mexico is still seen as a pressing necessity by large sectors of the U.S. administration and electorate. Why ⋙

  • Luca Raineri
Luca Raineri 23 Apr 2017 • 10 min read
Decontaminating the University — or the Cognitive Repression of Radical Thinking
terrorism

Decontaminating the University — or the Cognitive Repression of Radical Thinking

Radicalisation as the main conduit to terrorism has by now become a slippery as much as pervasive concept: it is ubiquitous and chimeric at the same time, it is everywhere ⋙

  • Alessandra Russo
Alessandra Russo 6 Apr 2017 • 9 min read
Kidnapped by Terrorists
terrorism

Kidnapped by Terrorists

Kidnappings by terrorist groups are on the rise globally. The chances of surviving this ordeal vary greatly according to the nationality of the victim. This is particularly true for aid ⋙

  • Mario Ragazzi
Mario Ragazzi 30 Mar 2017 • 9 min read
The Islamic State’s hidden side: a detailed network of governance
Iraq

The Islamic State’s hidden side: a detailed network of governance

Although a lot has been said about the Islamic State (IS) since its proclamation in 2014, very little is known about the terrorist group’s internal dynamics. In spite of ⋙

  • Alice Martini
Alice Martini 9 Jan 2017 • 5 min read
Turkey: Repression Everywhere
Academics for Peace

Turkey: Repression Everywhere

As we reported several months ago on this blog, the first challenge to the illiberal order gradually shaped over the last few years by the Turkish President has been a ⋙

  • Sevgi Doğan
    Sevgi Doğan
Sevgi Doğan 13 Dec 2016 • 8 min read
Colombia's Referendum: Low Turnout and Activist Minorities
Colombia

Colombia's Referendum: Low Turnout and Activist Minorities

How to dash hopes that civil wars can be ended with honor and rehabilitation. After negotiating a comprehensive peace agreement with the FARC-EP guerrillas and signing in on September 26th, ⋙

  • Mario Ragazzi
Mario Ragazzi 3 Oct 2016 • 4 min read
Refugee Status? I'd rather not, thank you!
migrants

Refugee Status? I'd rather not, thank you!

Migrants' (pre)occupations and the racialised approach adopted all along the Central Mediterranean Route. While Italy has become one of the main access gate to Europe, a large part ⋙

  • Michele Gonnelli
Michele Gonnelli 22 Aug 2016 • 9 min read

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