Positioning “Africa”: extraverted agency amidst global (dis)order
African Union

Positioning “Africa”: extraverted agency amidst global (dis)order

A spectre is haunting Africa: the spectre of African agency. Long denied, African agency is surfacing in new ways in the current context of the new global (dis)order and ⋙

  • Sofia Scialoja
Sofia Scialoja 16 Dec 2022 • 9 min read
Antisemitism, Palestine and academic freedom. Interview with the European Legal Support Center
Interviews

Antisemitism, Palestine and academic freedom. Interview with the European Legal Support Center

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) adopted a working definition of antisemitism of 2016 to address the rise in hate and discrimination against Jews. It has been formally adopted ⋙

  • Sevgi Doğan
    Sevgi Doğan
Sevgi Doğan 6 Dec 2022 • 10 min read
Migration Data Governance: A Critical Discussion on the Digital “Black Box” of Migration
migrants

Migration Data Governance: A Critical Discussion on the Digital “Black Box” of Migration

Digitalization of governance, transparency, accountability, as well as legal and socio-political implications of data-driven migration governance are among the topics addressed during the workshop “Migration data governance” hosted by the ⋙

  • Giulia Sezzi
Giulia Sezzi 25 Nov 2022 • 6 min read
Between borders, technologies, and databases: (in)visibilising emerging challenges in migration. A conversation with Niovi Vavoula
Interviews

Between borders, technologies, and databases: (in)visibilising emerging challenges in migration. A conversation with Niovi Vavoula

Both at the external EU borders, such as Greece and Italy, and the internal ones amongst EU Member States, we have witnessed a dispersion of the border, through its digitalization. ⋙

  • ISMINI MATHIOUDAKI
  • Alice Fill
    Alice Fill
ISMINI MATHIOUDAKI, Alice Fill 27 Oct 2022 • 13 min read
In Francophone West Africa, democracy continues to backslide
democracy

In Francophone West Africa, democracy continues to backslide

by Ornella Moderan,* Independent Researcher, Bamako, Mali West Africa’s democracy crisis runs deeper than military coups. On this year’s International Day of Democracy, 15 September, there isn’t ⋙

  • Guest author(s)
Guest author(s) 27 Sep 2022 • 5 min read
Security expertise in Georgia: a social network analysis
Georgia

Security expertise in Georgia: a social network analysis

In Tbilisi, the think-tank experts, NGO directors, and other civil society actors who spend their working days debating Georgia’s foreign policy and drafting grant proposals on confidence-building or security ⋙

  • Thijs Korsten
    Thijs Korsten
Thijs Korsten 16 Sep 2022 • 7 min read
Diplomacy, legacies and weapons: How is Turkish foreign policy towards Africa changing
Turkey

Diplomacy, legacies and weapons: How is Turkish foreign policy towards Africa changing

by Akram Kharief* Turkey’s engagement in Africa has experienced a significant change in the last decade, most notably in North Africa. Turkey features a more assertive presence across the ⋙

  • Guest author(s)
Guest author(s) 24 Aug 2022 • 8 min read
Deserted truths: a posthuman approach to the study of insecurity in the Naqab/Negev
Israel

Deserted truths: a posthuman approach to the study of insecurity in the Naqab/Negev

Protests erupted in southern Israel’s Negev region in mid-January 2022. Bedouin residents revolted against the Jewish tree-planting tradition of Tu-Bishvat. The event was organised by the Jewish National Fund ⋙

  • Miriam Zenobio
    Miriam Zenobio
Miriam Zenobio 28 Jul 2022 • 6 min read
Ukraine, Afghanistan and Belarus: What EU emergency response to ongoing migration plights?
migrants

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 ⋙

  • Chiara Scissa
    Chiara Scissa
Chiara Scissa 27 Jun 2022 • 5 min read
Counter-terrorism and the fight against Al-Shabaab in East Africa: Time for a more targeted approach
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 ⋙

  • Simone Papale
    Simone Papale
Simone Papale 20 Jun 2022 • 6 min read
A Jihadists’ schism in central Sahel: conflict epilogue or prelude to a new escalation?
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 ⋙

  • Alessandro Bolpagni
    Alessandro Bolpagni
Alessandro Bolpagni 14 Jun 2022 • 6 min read
Can empathy influence leadership, security, and high-stake situations? A conversation with  Claire Yorke
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 ⋙

  • Delina Goxho
    Delina Goxho
  • Kendall Brown
    Kendall Brown
Delina Goxho, Kendall Brown 27 May 2022 • 9 min read

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