refugees Pushbacks, pullbacks, backscattering: evolving forms of digital refoulement at the EU borders After the so-called 2015 “refugees’ crisis”, the European Union and its Member States have given new impetus to the externalisation in border management and outsourcing of migration policies, accelerating a ⋙
Africa African Crossroads: Security Challenges and Partnership Opportunities In the last decade, many African countries have experienced an economic growth rate among the world’s highest. In 2019, Ethiopia was the second-fastest growing economy globally,with an average ⋙
Armenia The Armenian question: where does it stand more than a century after the genocide? On the night of April 24th, 1915, executives of the Ottoman Young Turks-led government emitted an ordinance giving way to the 20th century’s first genocide: the killing of one ⋙
European Union A toothless enforcement? Operation Irini between arms embargo and migration management It was only after several rounds of heated discussions that, on the 25th of March, the Council of the European Union deliberated on the mandate of a new military operation ⋙
Mediterranean A liquid frontline: new war imaginaries in the Mediterranean Sea In the last few years, the Mediterranean area has witnessed at least three massive and unprecedented military operations that involve EU member states: the Italian Mare Nostrum (2013-2014), EUNAVFOR Med ⋙
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 ⋙
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 Societal effects of countering violent extremism and radicalization in Kosovo Countering terrorism and preventing radicalization and violent extremism have taken center stage in donors’ and governmental policy agendas in Kosovo over the past 6 years. While many research and policy ⋙
Field Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine In June 2016, Grégoire Moutaux, a French national, was apprehended at one of the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing points while trying to smuggle 5 AK-pattern assault rifles, thousands of bullets, 2 ⋙
Debate Migration management and the death of an Iraqi child in Bolzano: a conversation with senator Francesco Palermo By Mattia Farris, Beatrice Autelli, Claudia Knering, and Alessia Muzzin - The wealthy Italian province of Bolzano/South Tyrol was already known to the international community for the political division ⋙
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 ⋙
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 ⋙
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 ⋙
election Who Won the European Parliament Elections? What happens when all votes are not counted equal (redux). The new European Commission is out, for the first time claiming electoral legitimacy. Yet the actual votes received by each ⋙
