Bangladesh Bangladeshi Migration in the Mediterranean: Processes and Players In 2024, EU statistics revealed a concerning trend: up until May, 4,537 Bangladeshi individuals had irregularly crossed the central Mediterranean route, marking the highest number of migrants from a ⋙
Libya Human Transit in the Central Mediterranean: Insights and Future Work from the SHUT-MED PRIN Project Human mobility across the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) is once again on the rise, and this phenomenon has significant political (securitization) and theoretical (securitization theory) implications. The project titled " ⋙
Climate politics The military and the climate: restricted access area Although substantial and pervasive, the contribution to the climate crisis of military institutions all over the world often goes unnoticed. The military contributes directly to the climate crisis, as its ⋙
Russia Authoritarian regime and academic freedom in Russia: a conversation with Arseniy Petrov Co-authored by Ester Gallo (Associate professor at Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Trento). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not only Ukrainian academic circles but also ⋙
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 ⋙
ERIS Roundtables on Geopolitics and IR, 13-14 January 2022 (SSSA-SGRI) Roundtable 1 : The “return of geopolitics” and the study of International Relations On Thursday, 13th January, from 15 until 17.30, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA) ⋙
Crime The parallel crime pandemic: how organised crime is exploiting the health emergency in Italy “This coronavirus was such a good deal”. The manager of a company operating in the sanitisation sector was sanguine when discussing his business prospects on the phone. The Police of ⋙
scholars at risk Academic freedom and the precarious situation of scholars at risk Even in societies where it was long taken for granted as a key liberal value, academic freedom is currently experiencing a significant setback in many countries across the world, as ⋙
Italy Securitization of Islam in Italian counter-terrorism: Muslims as “suspect communities” The negative perception of Islam in Italy has increased over the last years. Recent surveys show that Italians overestimate the presence of Muslims (accounted for 20% of the population, while ⋙
Debate “Welcome home Silvia, into the lion’s den”: How gender biased narratives frame hostage liberations News of Silvia Romano’s liberation started to circulate in social media on May 9th. Each one of our virtual walls, irrespective of the political faction, cultural background and personal ⋙
Conferences Africa (No) News: how the media forgot a continent during the Covid-19 emergency by COSPE The under-representation of Africa in the Italian media catches the eye even more today, during the COVID-19 emergency. The absence of Africa from Italian primetime TV news, already ⋙
Culture Epidemiology of coronavirus as a psychosocial disease The coronavirus seems unstoppable. Science (with capital S) has dealt with the coronavirus mainly from a clinical and infectious point of view. In line with the standards of biomedical knowledge, ⋙
Debate Death and rescue in the Central Mediterranean: overcoming the limits of private outsourcing The search-and-rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean were overall successful in saving thousands of lives in the years 2014-2017. Compared with the previous years, the rescues reduced and stabilised the ⋙
Debate Restorative justice and terrorism: resisting evil with non-evil? The restorative justice approach has great potential in responding to terrorist acts, and the ensuing polarization, because it focuses on forms of political and pre-political communication, exchange and encounters that are able to allow ‘difficult’ but respectful conversations in societal space. ⋙
Culture Barabbas' version: Analysis of a major terror attack in Rome, A.D. 64 Our correspondent reports from the great city of the Caesars. A few months ago, on 19th July of the tenth year of divus Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, DCCCXVII a. ⋙
Debate Regeni, the media chorus sides with the counter-revolution Instead of looking into the mechanisms that shield the executioners from prosecution, Italian media and commentators spin conspiracies. Used to noir fiction, the public is thirsty for plot twists and ⋙
